More than 300,000 individuals have signed a petition for the lady to be fired, after Twix died within the freezing climate
A video of a cat being tossed out into the snow by a prepare employee has sparked widespread outrage – after the cat was discovered useless over the weekend.
More than 300,000 individuals have signed a petition calling for the Russian prepare conductor to lose her job after she threw a pet cat off a prepare, believing it was a stray. The white and ginger feline, generally known as Twix, had escaped from his provider on a prepare travelling between Yekaterinburg and St Petersburg on 11 January.
He was discovered by the conductor, who forcibly ejected the animal from the carriage whereas the prepare was stopped within the city of Kirov, east of Moscow. Hundreds of individuals later banded collectively to seek for the animal as temperatures approached minus 30C, who was later discovered useless on Saturday (20 January) – about half a mile from the place he had been left.
Volunteers advised AP they believed that Twix had been killed by the intense chilly, and it regarded like he had suffered quite a few animal bites. The incident has sparked widespread outrage in Russia and the world over – with hundreds following the story on social media, and others resharing viral footage of the cat being dropped into the snow.
A separate petition calling for felony fees to be introduced towards the conductor had gathered greater than 100,000 signatures as of Sunday. However, native authorities have up to now declined to prosecute the lady -who has not been publicly named.
In an announcement, Russian state prepare operator RZhD stated that it “sincerely regretted” the loss of life of Twix, and stated it had apologised to his house owners. “To ensure similar incidents will not happen in the future, amendments are already being made to the documents used to transport pets on long-distance trains,” they said in a social media statement.
“Conductors will be prohibited from disembarking animals from carriages – instead, animals will be handed to station workers who can contact animal welfare groups.”
