Yesterday 4th June 2014 was a good day to begin with when I left to work for my part time job as a security officer @ Le Cresendo Condominium in payar lebar , Arriving at work after taking over duty from night shift , I conduct a 1st patrol along the condominium vicinity , As im approaching the bin centre to my shocked , I saw Sylvester , was lock up in a small cage , with improper food and the cage was also with cat waste and worse of all it was raining yesterday morning as i take a close look at him i saw he was crying , and i ask the cleaner WHY is the poor guy been locked in the cage , and they say it was the condominium's manager who did that , and from the looks of it i was quite piss off my self as i believe no one or animal should be treated with this kinda inhumane treatment , as such i decided to take it upon my self to send sylvester far away and let it go my self , before doing that , I calmly waited for the condo manager to report for work at 10.30am , as we report in , I had a nice talk with him with regards of sylvester and his inhumane treatment and also do advice him that no animals should subject to this and the poor guy is crying in his cage , the reply from the condominiom manager was
1, I Have to do it due to resident complain and i will hand it over to A.V.A
I tried to reason with him again , no animals should be under the control of anyone either as they deserve to be free , looking after them self and feeding them self unless there is someones who wanna pet them ,
And he replied
2, Dont teach me to do my job , u just do ur job as u have nothing against that cat
I got a little pissed off and told him off that i will take the responsiblity and take it upon my self that i shall let the poor guy go else where far from the estate , and push the cage which is on the trolley outside the estate and let it go far away near the big canal , along the way i was stop by him (The condo manager) which hurl vulgarities at me and told me to Fxxx off my condominium and leave the cage here and tried his very best to stop me from progressing thru and i had bodyly shove him aside and left to let go of the poor guy far away and told him i will be back as soon as i empty the cage to return the cage back ,
At the place near the canal , where there is an open field , i spotted 2 good hearted chinese female cisco security officers (which i did not not have their name) who are working at taiseng mrt project came to help me along the way as i have difficulty of opening the cage , As soon as i let the cat go and return back to the condominium , The condo manager has called for the police and telling me not to go as he already called the police , and i calmly wait
There after when the police arrive , he did tried to frame me by telling the police that i had assaulted him which was not true as i had bodily shove him aside , and i had nothing personal againts him and told the police that he is free to go for medical check if i have truely assaulted him , after taking down our particulars the police left and I left for home
Conclusion of the story is
1, No Animals or human should be treated like this
2, Even there is a complain from residents that od cat nuisance there is always a better way to solve a problem not to let an animal kept in the cage and left crying , but to take it and let go else where
3, Im doing this upon my self and out of good will as animals too deserve freedom like the rest of us , and i do not trust any agency , as they too will keep animals in the cage , All Cat or Dogs or even other animals are God's creation and they deserve their freedom too
Sylvester (Photo attached) was a cat whom the cleaners down there keep it as a pet
Muhammad Shafiul K
TRS Contributor