Fresh concern as family pets vanish

MISSING family pets in the Pendine area have sparked memories of the sickening mutilation of cats.

For the third time in recent years, a number of pets have gone missing in the small village.

On previous occasions cats had been reported missing, two years before the mutilated bodies of three pets were found in the Pendine area. Shockingly, two of those cats had their heads and tails cut off.

Speaking about the latest incidents, former community councillor Julie Jones said her own ginger and white cat, Charity, had been missing for five weeks while a neighbour's grey and white cat had also disappeared.

Julie, who has lost cats before, said: "I find this very strange; she goes out at night but she's always here in the morning.

"She went missing weeks ago, she's just disappeared into thin air."

She said another cat, a pregnant grey and white female belonging to a local woman, had also gone.

Guinea pigs and rabbits have also been taken from neighbouring Llanmiloe.

Julie said: "When I've been putting up posters all this came out, there's one or two cats missing in Wood End as well, and guinea pigs and rabbits are missing.

"These are people's pets. Animals are actually missing, they are actually disappearing.

"At least you could see the evidence before, now there's no evidence at all."

Councillor Paul Bowring, of the Spring Well pub, said his son's girlfriend had lost two guinea pigs.

He said: "It could be anybody. The cats do get out but guinea pigs and rabbits — they don't get out.

"I just think it's probably a one-off, an opportunist thing, I don't think there's anything sinister."

Julie Fitzsimmonds, of Laugharne's Spar shop, said there had been a rise in the number of missing animals posters in the Laugharne area.

"We've had quite a lot of animals disappearing in the area.

"We have had lots of notices up in the shop, at one time three cats and four dogs.

"They've all come down but we did have a lot of them up, we did have a spate, they were all over the notice board."

RSPCA inspector Keith Hogben said the animal welfare group had not received any calls about disappearing animals.

However, he said that anyone who has lost pets in the area should contact the RSPCA.

Concerned owners should ring 0300 1234999.