Yup. Knee jerk reactions. Boringly predictable.

Maybe that wasn't an option? Like I said, with such little information on what actually happened it seems silly to me to hold such forceful views.

Humans are the biggest vermin on the planet.

Cats are only feral if they've had no contact with humans as kittens. If they have, then they're domesticated.

They're not a genetically different species of cat.

The behaviour you describe, sounds extreme anyway, but would be borne out of fear.

Of course it was an option. It's not a dangerous wild animal that is going to delliberately seek out people and attack, unprovoked.

Humans also pose a danger to people but you don't go round killing people that you don't like.

it was a feral farm cat from a long line of feral farm cats, there IS a difference between domesticated and feral cats.

frightened it was not, ever, till the day it died [of old age].

Well that has spectacularly failed hasn't it, wasn't good for business in the slightest!

Cat going mad in kitchen, I know we'll just kill it! Business comes first!

Word gets out, locals, customers, social media outraged, protest planned, FB page wrecked, low ratings = EPIC FAIL!

I'm glad some people have some actual compassion rather than a sociopathic reaction such as yours. Boringly predictable and reassuring! In the UK you don't get to kill a cat under any circumstances, and you never should!

And feral cats can become friendly once they trust someone, and be stroked etc.

You wouldn't execute a difficult child that was kicking off, no more excuse for a cat whose behaviour was based on fear.

Sunday 18th 1pm, get down to Betws and show your support. It will be a peaceful protest - https://www.facebook.com/events/3875...81211268902685

Why are you so hell bent on condemning their actions when you haven't got the full story?

Assumptions and denials. From the information given that's exactly what it could have been doing. It probably didn't deliberately stalk humans, no, but it's very likely that found itself in their company and became dangerously violent, necessitating action.


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What a stupid response, if you think that's in a single way relevant to anything here.

OK, read it here if you don't believe me.

There is a difference between a domestic and a feral cat, but it is not genetic. If a feral cat gets used to a human handler as a kitten, then it will be domesticated.

Here's another link

Because no civilized person would kill a cat that was on their premises. Simples.

Their TripAdvisor reviews coincidentally seem to be taking a hammering.

Looking at their website their catering manager goes on birdwatching holidays. So he obviously loves cats.

Link not working, Bill.

I hope the creep who is responsible for the killing and/or the hotel owner, will have the courage to explain how the cat was killed, if not by a rolling pin.

I agree, they should have trapped it and had it dispatched somewhere else out of the public gaze.

BTW I think you meant civilised, unless you are one of oyr American cousins?

Yes I would not be angry at the hotel if it was only some idiot staff that did it but the management thoroughly denounced it and was ashamed of what happened, but they're not, they are trying to justify it by saying it was OK to "dispose" of a cat, a 10 week old kitten at that just because it is feral, without turning to other avenues such as the RSPCA first, which I would hope the vast majority would. It is for this, that they would be best shutting down as a business or being sold to someone else, hopefully they cannot recover from their fully deserved PR disaster.

And if they could have done that instead, why not let it go, why the need to kill at all, there isn't any need at all to do so.

Shut the kitchen for a few hours and lose a bit of business whilst calling the RSPCA out. Far better than to lose a hell of a lot more business than that when word gets out you've killed a cat! It must have disgusted someone who worked there who witnessed it or word would not have got out as it has in the first place, so doing what they did was even more stupid if they thought everybody would be on board with it, they were thankfully not!

Where are you getting the information that the cat was a 10 week old kitten?

Edit: realised the pet comment was about a different story.

But if the government or the authorities are sympathetic to the protest they might even turn a blind eye, there is a cat in Downing Street, the government and police themselves might be pissed off with such a story.

It's a bit rich to bring up spellings of the word civilized, when you post a completely nonsensical statement like the bit in bold.

But assuming you meant "somewhere else out of the public gaze", I disagree. They should have taken the cat to the RSPCA for advice. I know that many authorities now recommend that feral cats are neutered and returned to the wild.

By the way, for future reference, this is in the rules:-

I cant see any justification for killing a cat like this.

Agreed. Surely he was jesting.