PETALING JAYA: Social media users are outraged after several cats were reportedly killed brutally on the grounds of Universiti Malaya (UM).
Instagram user @shimaaris claimed in several posts that at least three cats, one of them a pet named Lily, had been killed.
"There could be more of them (but) we can't see their bodies," she posted, urging the university authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.
"Another dead cat this morning at UM... this is clearly not caused by dogs! What (is being) covered up?" she wrote on Friday (Dec 20).
It was reported earlier this week that at least two cats had been found dead on the campus on Dec 12 and Monday (Dec 16), with some media outlets saying it was the work of dogs.
Photos of one cat's carcass have gone viral, showing the animal on the ground with a large gash on its body and all four paws missing.
However, @shimaaris, a campaigner against animal cruelty, wrote: "Easy for you to blame voiceless animals when they cannot... defend themselves. Dogs do not chew off only (the) limbs. They go straight to the body.
"Show us the evidence before you go around (killing) all the defenceless stray dogs in the area."
Veterinarian Salehatul Khuzaimah M. Ali, who goes by the username @dr.ima_vet on the same platform, posted about finding another cat dead.
She claimed that the cat had been killed in a similar way.
Other netizens commented, urging the authorities to take swift action.
User kathirgamatamb claimed that it was "the work of a psychopath" while several others described the animal killings as "a demonic act", dismissing speculation that dogs were responsible.
