cat starved to death after she was abandoned in an empty house by her cruel owner. Stephen Smith claimed pet Molly had gone missing, but the cat's emaciated body was found under a bed in the rubbish-strewn, stinking property in Newarthill, Lanarkshire.
A shocked welfare officer said the filthy house was "no place for a human or an animal". Smith, 44, has now been fined £420 at Hamilton Sheriff Court and banned from keeping cats for a year.The court heard Molly suffered severe organ failure due to malnutrition which resulted in her death.The Scottish SPCA was alerted by a caller who said Smith left his cat in the house for long periods and was living elsewhere in the village.Officers were shocked when they entered the empty house.Inspector.
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