A close friend of mine, and a devoted advocate of animal rights, once visited one of these inhuman cat factories. This one was located in an industrial area near a train yard, set up in the basement of an abandoned building.
He got news of the discovery through an animal-rights mailing list, and he drove over in order to join the street protest. When he arrived, he tells me, police officers had organized a sort of assembly line. Hundreds of cats, each entombed inside a glass vessel, were carried up out of the reeking warehouse by volunteers. Some cats meowed in a sick, horrible way, and so were brought over to the smashing counter, where their tombs were shattered with a rubber mallet. Others were silent, for they were dead. Some had been dead for nearly a week, and were beginning to decay. These were bagged and thrown in a fast-growing heap, to be trucked off to a mass grave. In total approximately six hundred cats were removed, of which nearly two hundred were dead. Now the operation of this factory was quite normal. There was no exceptional cause for such a great number of cats dying. Death was routine - cats are not suited to living in glass vessels. And the evidence for this was in an adjacent room - warehouse space, in fact. Burning the corpses would attract too much attention. So the floor of this warehouse was removed, and upon the bare dirt huge mounds had sprung up in various places. Mass graves. They estimated that fourty thousand cat corpses were buried there. In another room was stored the glass-blowing equipment: a small furnace, tongs, blowing pipe, and supply of raw material. The perpetrators remain at large. _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat
