Cat Thrown Off Train in Freezing Weather Sparks Outrage in Russsia

Cat “Twix”
Thrown by Train Conductor and Dies
Conductor: “I thought it was a stray cat”

The pet cat Twix was thrown out of a train at minus 30 degrees and died.

According to BBC, a train conductor threw a cat out of a train near Kirov station east of Moscow, Russia.

The cat was Twix, a pet cat traveling with its owner on a train between Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg at the time.

After escaping from the carrier, Twix was found by passengers walking through the carriages, and the conductor, who thought Twix was a stray cat, threw the cat out of the train.

At first, the conductor claimed that “Twix ran away,” but the controversy escalated as CCTV footage of the conductor throwing the cat out of the train was released on social media.

After the video was released, Twix’s owner and more than 5,000 volunteers searched around Kirov train station.

However, Twix was found dead about half a mile away from the train tracks nine days after being abandoned on the 20th.

The volunteers who found Twix said, “There were bite wounds around Twix’s body,” and suspected that the cat had died due to injuries from an attack and frostbite.

As the incident quickly spread through social media, more than 300,000 Russians signed a petition to dismiss the Russian Railways conductor who threw out the cat.

In response, Russian state-owned railway company RZhD expressed “sincere regret for the death of the cat” and announced that they would revise the regulations applied to transporting pets on long-distance trains to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.