Signatures Needed After Indiana Shelter Director Told Staff to Freeze Cats to Death. Demand That Animal Cruelty Charges Are Filed Against Her!

As reported by ABC8News, Woodson said that the shelter’s director, Christina Payne, told her to put a live kitten inside a plastic bag and then put it in the freezer. Woodson refused to do it. Another time, Payne told her to put a kitten that had been hit by a car in the freezer. Again, Woodson refused to do so and instead took the kitten to a veterinarian to have it humanely euthanized. She complained to the Spencer County Animal Control Board, but nothing was done.

Woodson was not the only shelter staff member told to do such a cruel thing. As the Spencer County Sheriff’s Office began its investigation, witnesses came forward confirming that cats had been frozen to death. In one case, four live kittens were put in the freezer. One former employee said a Spencer County Animal Control Board member admitted during a meeting that she put a live cat in a freezer when she was the shelter’s director.

The attorney for the Animal Control Board issued a statement saying the shelter had changed its policies and procedures “to address those unacceptable actions,” but didn’t elaborate on what those changes were.

This disturbing case has been turned over to Indiana state police, yet Payne continues to work at the shelter.

The animals at Spencer County Animal Shelter deserve much better than this. For the animals’ safety and justice, for the cats that suffered painful and inhumane deaths, Payne and the board member who froze a cat need to be held accountable.

Please sign & share this Care2 petition urging the Spencer County Prosecuting Attorney to fire them both immediately and charge them with animal cruelty Here!