Animal activists rescue more than 300 abandoned cats from 2 houses in Bangkok

More than 300 cats left in cages in two houses in Bangkok have been rescued after neighbours alerted animal activists that their owner had abandoned them.

The cats were thought to have been strays the owner had given shelter to. But she could no longer afford to feed them after her circumstances changed due to the coronavirus pandemic, said activist Warattada Pattarodom.

“The owner did not come to this place for quite a while, many months,” Pattarodom said.

A neighbour had sometimes fed the cats, a volunteer involved in the rescue said.

Pattarodom, speaking from one of the veterinarian clinics now looking after the animals, said some of them had died and both locations were filthy.

After being given checkups by vets,…