An Oxfordshire woman who admitted drowning eight cats in a bath has been jailed for 12 weeks.
Julie Carter, 43, of Bicester, told RSPCA staff she could not afford a phone call to have the cats rescued so killed them one by one over a week.
She tried to drown nine animals aged between one and three years old, but one of them survived.
Her housing association had told her to remove some of her cats, Banbury magistrates heard.
During a later visit by an RSPCA inspector, she told them she had not had enough money to contact any animal charities, and had drowned the cats in a baby bath instead.
Carter, who had admitted killing her pets at an earlier hearing, was banned from keeping animals for life.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11653149
Julie Carter, 43, of Bicester, told RSPCA staff she could not afford a phone call to have the cats rescued so killed them one by one over a week.
She tried to drown nine animals aged between one and three years old, but one of them survived.
Her housing association had told her to remove some of her cats, Banbury magistrates heard.
During a later visit by an RSPCA inspector, she told them she had not had enough money to contact any animal charities, and had drowned the cats in a baby bath instead.
Carter, who had admitted killing her pets at an earlier hearing, was banned from keeping animals for life.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11653149
