- A Queensland couple have been convicted of animal cruelty to pet cat Oscar
- The Persian moggy was injured after being struck by a car in December 2016
- Owner Dharme Kinsey then cut the animal’s ‘dead’ limb off without anaesthetic
- Partner Amy Matthew joked about the act to her daughter via text messages
- They were fined nearly $6,000, and Kinsey handed a suspended jail sentence
A Queensland couple have been convicted of animal cruelty after their pet cat Oscar had his leg cut off without anaesthetic.
The Persian moggy received serious injuries after it was stuck by a car in December last year, before owner Dharme Kinsey cut off the animal’s ‘dead’ front limb.
His partner, Amy Matthews, then callously joked to her daughter over text messages that the leg had been thrown onto a neighbour’s roof and was ‘looking at me’.
A Queensland couple have been convicted of animal cruelty after their pet Persian cat Oscar (pictured) had his leg amputated without anaesthetic by one of them
The couple pleaded guilty to two charges each in Bundaberg Magistrates Court for failing to look after Oscar, News Mail reports.
Details claimed the pair failed to provide medical care for his broken leg between December 10, 2016 and January 10, 2017.
While they also breached their duty of care over a period of 10 days this year when they failed to seek help to treat an infection Oscar developed following the amputation.
Oscar broke his right front leg after he was struck by the car, with the injury leaving flesh and blood exposed before Kinsey used a knife to remove it without pain relief.
Text messages from Matthews suggested the couple had worried about the RSPCA stepping in and didn’t ‘have money for vets’.
‘There is flesh and bone exposed and (the) smell is bad,’ Matthews wrote in one message.
Dharme Kinsey (right) reportedly cut off the animal’s ‘dead’ front limb after it had been struck by a car, before his partner Amy Matthews (left) joked about it to her daughter
The text messages Matthews sent (pictured) claimed that the leg had been thrown onto a neighbours roof and was ‘looking at me’
While in another she stated: ‘Dad just cut cats leg off with a tommy hawk knife, didn’t hurt him cause it was dead.’
Oscar was seized after RSPCA inspectors found him in a dog kennel with the exposed wound on January 10.
Matthews was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay another $1,100 in costs to the RSPCA, while Kinsey was also fined $1,000, ordered to pay $2,800 in vet fees and handed a three-month suspended jail sentence for his animal cruelty charge.
Speaking in court he said: ‘I worked with race horses. I am remorseful. I considered it humane what I did. It’s a one-off thing.’
The couple, who own another cat and two dogs, will have the animals seized after being banned from keeping pets until the end of 2025.
Other messages sent by the woman suggested the couple had worried about the RSPCA stepping in and didn’t ‘have money for vets’ (right), with the pair fined nearly $6,000 between them for their actions
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