{"id":65296,"date":"2017-03-31T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=65296"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T09:20:20","slug":"kitten-thrown-moving-car-middelburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/31\/kitten-thrown-moving-car-middelburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitten thrown out of moving car in Middelburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman witnessed the ordeal whilst taking a smoke-break outside her workplace in Cowen Ntuli Street near the traffic light at the Lilian Ngoyi T-junction.<\/p>\n<p>She said that a woman with short blond hair, estimated to be in her 40\u2019s and driving a white Kia SUV, simply threw the kitten out the window whilst driving down the busy street before turning into the shopping complex next to McDonald\u2019s, where Roman\u2019s Pizza is situated.<\/p>\n<p>The witness ran into the street to rescue the kitten before it could be hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>The cat had all the skin and hair of its tail removed with eyewitnesses saying it resembled the tail of a rat.<\/p>\n<p>The animal also had an injury to its eye and internal injuries to its hips, later discovered when it was taken to the vet.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women working close to where the incident happened, has since adopted the cat and also paid for its medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has witnessed the event or know who the culprit might be, is requested to phone the <i>Middelburg Observer<\/i> standby number on 072 248 3855.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewitnesses are up in arms after witnessing a woman throwing a small kitten out of a moving car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":65297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}