A “house of horror”, filled with dying or dead cats, was discovered in Nice on Saturday December 4th. The volunteers of the association Urgence pour un animal des Alpes-Maritimes (UPA06) saved the cats that could be saved, and put online a kitty to treat them.
A “house of horror”, this is what the Urgence pour un animal des Alpes-Maritimes association (UPA 06) fell on. The macabre discovery took place on Saturday, December 4, 2021.
The house and the garden were filled with dying or decaying cats. UPA06 volunteers had to face this unbearable spectacle to save the felines that can still be.
Associations in the sector have supported them, and an online fundraiser has been launched to finance the costs. This house, belonging to a retiree, is located in the heart of Nice:
The association was alerted by the family of the octogenarian, who had just been hospitalized. And 30 cats were found there, in a pitiful state.
The situation was worse in the garden. A real feline cemetery was discovered there, a hundred corpses were recorded. Some animals were found in a state of decomposition in boxes (images – shocking – were posted on Facebook, see below).
Immediately, UPA06 picked up the cats within reach, which were taken to the nearest veterinary clinics for first aid. Other felines, who fled during the opening of the “house of horror”, still need to be recovered.
The Nice police have opened an investigation for acts of cruelty to animals. According to the association, the retiree deliberately attracted neighborhood cats to his home, and refrained from feeding them. Some were reportedly locked alive in boxes.
One of the corpses found in the house had been devoured to the bone, evidence of the under-nutrition of the cats locked up there. A situation close to the twenty starving cats found in an apartment in Nice (this happens on average once a year). But different from a case of feline poisoning as we had seen in Mulhouse, in Alsace.
This Monday, December 6, more than 1,000 euros had already been collected to treat the surviving cats. Most of them are taken care of by veterinarians from the Riviera. “A large part went with foster families”, explains Cécilia Fruleux, president of Au service des Animaux (Asa), questioned by France 3 Côte d’Azur.
“And the most serious cases have been placed on a drip. So far, there have been no additional deaths. It must be said that we have had enough, I think … Unfortunately, these cats have been so dehydrated that they have neurological sequelae: it’s quite difficult. “ The Asa and UPA06 associations must return to the scene in the coming days: there are still cats to be rescued.