Another pet killing raises tensions among residents
Parkhill residents anguished over the death of another cat by unleashed dogs.
RESIDENTS of Parkhill are furious after another cat was mauled to death. The cat, named Max belonged to the chairman of the Mvoti Neighbourhood Watch, Grant Cockburn and was attacked on Thursday morning.
A distraught Cockburn said: “My neighbour woke up this morning to leave for gym to find our black cat being mauled in his driveway by two large dogs. One was a brown staffie and the other a light brown boerbull/ mastiff of some sort. He chased the dogs but was unable to stop them from killing the poor cat. This could have been anyone’s cat, dog or child.”
Cockburn filed two affidavits with Metro Police in an attempt to stop the owner of the dogs who he says killed his family’s beloved Max.
The residents say the dogs that have been attacking cats in the area for the past two years belong to a woman who walks her dogs without a leash. The debacle involving the Parkhill dog walker first emerged in April 2015 when Lyn Alborough, who lives on Conyngham Avenue, claimed that the woman’s dogs had killed four of her cats. “It has been heart-wrenching. My cats are like my babies. We have approached her about the issue on multiple occasions, and every time she promises that she will keep her dogs on the leads, but she never keeps her word. It is pure negligence on her part,” Alborough said at the time.
Then in August last year , Denise Masson, a Clarendon Road resident and Chairman of the Clarendon Neighbourhood Watch, said the resident’s dogs, a boerboel and a staffie, had also killed two of her cats.
Last year she said: “People are fed up. The current frenzy was sparked after a kitty was found dead in the area. While we cannot prove that it was her dogs that were involved we cannot let this go. Not only for the safety of our pets and the community, but also for her dogs, that could easily be hit by a car.”
