The trainer, Li Feng, was apparently demonstrating a “conservation of angular momentum experiment”, which he did twice. The animal might be clearly heard squealing when it was dropped.
“It is fine to do this with a cat but we cannot do it with a dog,” Li tells his college students within the video.
After receiving an avalanche of on-line criticism, Li apologised for his remedy of the cat, referred to as Laifu, which belongs to him.
“As the owner of Laifu, I ignored the physical and mental harm to it brought by the experiment. As a teacher, I behaved controversially without considering that it would have a potential negative impact on my students and others,” Li stated.
Li stated he took Laifu for a veterinary check-up after the experiment. He additionally donated NT$50,000 (US$1,500) to the Taiwan Homeless Animal Rescue Association.
His pet was adopted from a charity and it sleeps on his mattress each night time.
Li stated he understood Laifu was scared through the experiment and he hoped the cat would forgive him.
Addressing his cat, he stated: “I will buy you the best feline food to show how sorry I am.”
However, many individuals on social media have remained enraged by his actions.
“As the cat’s owner, did your heart not ache for it when it hit the floor?” one on-line observer requested.
“You are a cat abuser. You are teaching students to do bad things,” stated one other.
The ill-treatment of cats typically makes headlines on social media.
Last yr, a courtroom in New Taipei City sentenced a person to seven months in jail and fined him NT$250,000 (US$8,000) for killing his pet cat with boiling water in an try to power his girlfriend to return to him.
