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A mother has released footage of the moment her cat was kicked unconscious outside her home.

Amy Jo Bland heard Mr Solly, 16, screaming at 1.18am last Sunday and when she went outside she said he was ‘dragging himself’ towards her.

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She went to the vets and realised the injuries could have been deliberate. When she got home she viewed the CCTV footage which shows two people approaching the cat before taking a running kick to his head.

They filmed themselves carrying out the attack on their phones. Amy is determined to track down those responsible and has spend the evenings knocking on people’s doors.




She said: ‘There’s some evil in this world. When I saw that camera, I could feel myself shaking.

Solly, who is 16, was brutally kicked in the head in a pointless attack (Picture: Mercury)

‘I was lay in bed when the attack happened. It was 1.18am so it is unusual for Mr Solly to be out then, but his screaming woke me up.

‘I ran downstairs and he was dragging himself towards me. It was terrifying. I wondered what could have happened to him because at this point I hadn’t checked the CCTV.

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‘My uncle lives next-door-but-one so he watched [my son] Rhyley while I took Solly to the emergency vets.

‘I begged “he’s dying, he’s not going to make it”. I couldn’t believe it. He doesn’t even go out beyond the front garden and he’ll stop within the gates.

‘The vet just said “that’s really peculiar”. I hadn’t checked my cameras yet so I had no idea what it could have been.

‘His eye was all swollen. But we knew he hadn’t been hit by a car because I would have heard it going past. I knew he never went across the road.

His owner Amy Jo Bland saw that her cat had been attacked outside her home when she reviewed CCTV footage (Picture: Mercury)

‘They checked his heart and that was okay but Solly was not happy.’

She added: ‘He had head trauma and the vets said he must be in shock. Solly is a harmless cat. He keeps himself to himself and mainly lives upstairs.

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‘Yesterday he was just shaking and leaning close against the wall. He’s very traumatised.

‘The shock can kill him because he’s that old. Due to his age, the next few weeks are critical. I have been sitting with him again this morning but he’s terrified.

‘It’s really hard to get your head around why anyone would do that to a defenceless animal. He hadn’t gone anywhere near them.

‘The boy just kicked him then got his phone out to film him. On the CCTV footage, he gets his phone out to video him as he lies there unconscious.’

She rushed outside after hearing her cat’s screams in the early hours of the morning (Picture: Mercury)

She has now taken to social media and threatened to name the boys if no action is taken.

On Facebook, she wrote: ‘I have been searching again and now have the same name over and over again.I’ve knocked locally and people confirm this is him.

‘I have [gone down] the right channel. I have contacted the police and they are supposed to call me back! Do they? Course they don’t.

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‘Solly’s being let done left right and centre. Within the next 24 hours the name along with the pictures and all I have will be posted!!!!’



Amy Jo said: ‘I got home and checked the cameras and couldn’t believe what I saw next. These boys have got to be out there somewhere.

‘If that was my son, I would know. I might not be able to see his face but I would be able to tell by what he was wearing, how he was running. They both looked between 15 and 17 years old.

‘If the parents of these boys have seen my post or the video, please take them straight to the police station.

‘If somebody has been shown this video by those boys and finds this cruelty entertaining, it’s wrong, diabolical. How anyone can look at that video and laugh, I will never understand.

‘The vet said Solly may never go outdoors again because he’s been so scared by what happened.

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‘He might just become a house cat completely but why should he be that cat that stays indoors just because of them?’

The animal lover and shelter volunteer claims she feels some guilt that this attack happened outside her own home, after 18 years of rescuing animals from danger.

The mum, who is currently four months pregnant, says she has been left unable to eat or relax until the teenagers face justice.

Amy Jo said: ‘I’ve rescued cats for 18 years and one that we used to have had been shot. It would have been before we got her and she had survived a long time with it inside her.

‘I’ve been rescuing animals myself since I was about 19 and my whole family are animal lovers.


‘It’s ridiculous. All these years that I’ve been looking after rescue animals then this happens on my own street – it makes me sick.

‘It’s affected us. I can’t eat, I’m being sick, there’s no way that people can go around doing that. How many more cats have they done this to?’

A police spokesman said: ‘No arrests have been made. Enquiries continue.’

A spokesperson from the RSPCA said: ‘The CCTV footage is shocking and shows two people deliberately targeting a family pet who is lucky not to have suffered more serious injuries or even been killed.

‘Unsurprisingly we want to trace these people and are appealing to anyone who might recognise either of the individuals them or have any information which can help identify them to contact us.’