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'I Would Have Taken Them All': Man Snuck Into SPCA After Hours, Freeing All the Caged Animals

The man was acquitted due to insanity and ordered to receive psychiatric treatment after releasing all animals, with most recovered and adopted except one cat still missing.

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An SPCA worker was injured by a cat while scrambling to retrieve shelter animals released by a man who didn’t like the idea of them being caged. Carmen...

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SPCA worker injured retrieving runaway cat after man frees shelter animals in Nelson

A staff member was injured trying to retrieve the escapees, one of which remains missing.

·New Zealand
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'I would have taken them all': Man snuck into SPCA after hours, freeing all the caged animals

An SPCA worker was injured by a cat while scrambling to retrieve shelter animals released by a man who didn’t like the idea of them being caged. Carmen...

·Auckland, New Zealand
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NZ Herald broke the news in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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