Patriot Heart
12-13-2004, 12:43 PM
This is what they get for banning handguns.
Row over 'killer cat'
By Richard Edwards, Evening Standard
13 December 2004
He was named after UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan - but Kofi the cat is hardly living up to his epithet.
The five-year-old bengal is accused of fighting every cat in his London suburb, killing one and leaving two others so traumatised they had to be put down.
His owners, Chris and Caroline Hykiel, insist he is no "vicious beast" - despite installing a cage in their back garden to keep him in during the day.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=150 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Now emotions are running so high among neighbours in Kofi's quiet Merton Park street that even the police have become involved. "He's a bastard - the rottweiler of the cat world," said Brian Coombes, who started an action group demanding the owners take more responsibility for their pet.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/15283898?source=Evening%20Standard
Row over 'killer cat'
By Richard Edwards, Evening Standard
13 December 2004
He was named after UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan - but Kofi the cat is hardly living up to his epithet.
The five-year-old bengal is accused of fighting every cat in his London suburb, killing one and leaving two others so traumatised they had to be put down.
His owners, Chris and Caroline Hykiel, insist he is no "vicious beast" - despite installing a cage in their back garden to keep him in during the day.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=150 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/std/pixel.gif</TD></TR><TR><TD>
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http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/15283898?source=Evening%20Standard