NParks investigating after cat found dead in Yishun with legs splayed

RECENT INCIDENTS

This is the latest in a spate of incidents in which cats in Yishun and Punggol were found dead with injuries.

In a Facebook post last month, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam drew attention to another similar incident that took place in Yishun Street 51, saying: “A community cat in Yishun had been tortured, eyes gouged out, body cut up and organs split.

“What kind of person will do this? This is not who we are as a people.”

Facebook page Sayang Our Singapore’s Community Cats said the cat had been found “brutally tortured and left on the road in a failed attempt to disguise this crime as an accident”.

In a separate incident, another cat was found injured at the loading and unloading bay near Block 326B, Sumang Walk in Punggol.

NParks said investigations showed its injuries were likely result of a traffic accident, as opposed to a deliberate act of animal cruelty.

In 2024, the number of cases involving animal cruelty and welfare in Singapore rose to a 12-year high of 961, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).