It's causing quite the social media storm, with a protest now planned for a Sunday this month, and their page now flooded with comments and 1 star reviews.

The Royal Oak Hotel in the quaint town of Betws-Y-Coed which is nestled in forested foothills is not somewhere you would expect to have a disgraceful story like this!

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nort...-coed-12283693

I wonder how the story got out, it must have been witnessed by someone who was disgusted at the hotel and then the next thing you know, Facebook, and ratings and pages are sabotaged! What sane business owner would ever think to "humanely euthanise" a cat is actually a good thing to do!

I remember in the Jason Wells cyclist road rage incident in SW London, his Brew restaurant pages were flooded with bad reviews and angry comments but after a while things returned to normal and he's even opening another 6th restaurant in his chain, could this Betws-Y-Coed establishment really survive after doing something this awful? It was bad enough that some workers did it, but that the hotel then made excuses for them instead of apologising.

Reading more on the story it seems there are rumours the cat was not humanely euthanised but rather was bludgeoned to death with a rolling pin.

Personally I classify all cats that are allowed to wander where they want as vermin. As long as the cat was killed humanely I'm fine with it.

Well those protesting such things via social media could soon find themselves in hot water when the proposed amended legislation about cyber bullying and more specifically cyber mobbing comes into force.

Thin ice Andy old bean, thin ice
I presume you don't know any actual cat owners itrw. A more obsessive tunnel visioned group you would be hard done to find.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were doxxed had a "Catwah" put on you. 😱💣💥💀

Not just thin ice but fallen through it, how people can have sick opinions like yours I have no comprehension, I just hope you have a bad christmas etc.

Sounds like you are happy with the authorities clamping down on legitimate protest then, doesn't mean we will comply. All those gathered outside the Leo the Lion killer's dentist office, that was "cyber mobbing" was it, have we all got to stay home and grumble quietly to ourselves about things from now on?

business comes first

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Well how was s/he killed then, you sick, cowardly prick?

What I really want to say to you would obviously get me banned, it would be a shame to ruin a 15 year old account and posting history over you!

Legitimate protest is one thing, an anonymous group of people trying to put someone out of business (Jason Wells) or getting them sacked from their job, as has happened with other similar cases, is another matter entirely.

I agree but we are not of the chattering classes or rent-a-gobs to jump and down and have something to moan about nor of the angry cat fanatical brigade
But I don't suppose cats come and crap all over their gardens

I'm not sure they're a poster on here, so you might have a bit of a wait.

Not a problem, I could just as easily pose the same question in real life to this tool, if I wanted to

I won't, as I'm sure many others have already done so, but I could.

Your attitude is as sick as the people who did this in Caernarfon, how did they even know it was a "feral cat" for sure, could have been a lost kitten, then they would have also been hurting a family, people. - http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nort...-body-12029179

But they are not vermin, and what you are suggesting would be illegal.

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How do you know the cat wasn't someone's pet?

Jesus - I reckon some people get off on cruelty, abuse and killing of animals that can't fight back. Cowardly creeps.

Ridiculously little information on this story. Doesn't stop people whipping themselves into a fury purely at the mention of a dead cat, though.

The manager says it was vicious and posed a present danger to peoples wellbeing, but obviously that can't possible be true as it was a cat and all cats are divine beings, far above any other living creature!

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No 1/ How would they know s/he was feral?

No 2/ If they won't answer the question as to how s/he was killed, then I'm calling it inhumane.

If they'd been considerate of the law, and not arseholes, they'd have trapped the cat and taken him/her to the RSPCA for consideration, not undertaken to kill him/her themselves, most probably, unprofessionally.

Why are you so hell bent on defending them?


That would suggest to me that the incident was witnessed by guests. Not nice.

Feral cats are classed as vermin under British law.
That doesn't excuse the actions of the hotel though.

You still don't kill it though do you, you get help, call the RSPCA, like any reasonable person would. Was it simply revenge because the cat "pissed" and ate some of the restaurant's food?

my father had a feral cat he adopted as a kitten.

absolute horror it was, we certainly knew it was feral.

i am not exaggerating when i say it would fly for your face from across the room if it didn`t like the way you looked at it and if you pointed at it, it would damn near take your throat out.

No they're not. There is no legal definition, but what guidance there is does not mention cats - link

It also doesn't excuse British law which needs to be updated on the subject.,

I had a thought the other day that when someone kills psychopathically someone's pet cat or dog like in the linked story about Caernarfon, if they are caught, it shouldn't just be the death of the animal that they face charges of, but that the psychological damage to pet owners and the families should be taken into account also. This could legally mean, enough for a 10 year sentence.
Just think of the trauma you go through if someone has killed your pet cat, they should be doing time for a psychological assault on you too, I am actually thinking of campaigning for a change in the law in this direction, then we might see such scum going down for 10 years. The likes of Andrue could be looking at that long if he acted on it, just because a cat shat in a garden it's OK to use extreme violence.