Atrocious death of a cat in Ossi, a town in the province of Sassari, found suffocated with an electric cable.
Yesterday morning around 7.30 the feline was found by one of the owners dying near his home. «My father - reports Laura Cassano, one of the "mistresses" - heard the meow and found it on a terrace adjacent to our house». Romeo, this is the name of the three-year-old kitten, had a rope tightened around his neck with five turns and was hanging upside down.
"We took him to the clinic and, after a day-long agony, he died." The paws, among other things, at the time of discovery, were completely inert as if they had been broken. "We have made a request to the zooprophylactic institute to find out whether he suffered fractures because he was perhaps beaten up." Meanwhile, Romeo's owners have decided to file a complaint with the local police company, which will be formalized on Monday. "Whoever did it committed an act of unprecedented cruelty."
There is a precedent which, however, raises suspicions about the current affair. "Last year Romeo's little brother was found dying and we thought someone had beaten him." The house where the incident occurred is located on the second floor of the building and reaching the cat must not have been easy. «We have no elements - Cassano clarifies - to accuse anyone. On the other hand, here we all know each other and we have no problems with anyone." Certainly the modalities of the event are such as to suggest a kind of premeditation. "I'm just saying that the perpetrator of such a vile act must be someone capable of who knows what else."
