12 CATS FOUND DUMPED INSIDE CHEST OF DRAWERS

TWELVE cats were found dumped in a field inside a chest of drawers that had been fashioned into a make-shift cage.

A shocked passer-by found the wooden crate full of meowing cats and kittens - dumped in a hedge on the edge of a field behind her house in Camp Hill Road, Nuneaton, during the hot weather on Thursday.

The woman took the kittens and cats home before raising the alarm with the RSPCA.

Animal collection officer Cara Gibbon went along to collect the cats and explained: “The make-shift crate the cats had been confined in turned out to be a wooden chest of drawers unit with chicken wire over the top.

“The very confused and nervous cats were trapped inside.

“There were 12 cats inside, a mix of older cats and young, 12-week-old kittens.

“But all seemed friendly and used to being handled so we suspect they have come from a home environment.

“When I arrived the lady who had found them had transferred them into a dog crate to give them more room but to keep them confined and safe.

“The strange structure they were found in is very distinctive so I’m hopeful someone may recognise it or the cats themselves.”

Anyone with any information about where the cats may have come from should call the RSPCA’s inspector appeal line on 0300 123 8018 and leave a message for Cara.

“To abandon these lovely cats - some who are still very young - out in the middle of nowhere in this blazing heat is unthinkable,” she said.