In December 2013, a London court banned Kloda, 32, from having care and control or custody of an animal and also prohibited him from living in the same residence with any animal after he pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. He’d been caught on video throwing and kicking a cat, swinging it by the legs and tail and holding it down under running water.
At the time, a London Humane Society officer called the case “one of the worst examples of intentional animal abuse” he’d ever seen.
Recently the society received tips via Facebook that there might be a cat in Kloda’s apartment, said director Judy Foster.
For more than a year, people have been posting “missing cat” ads to the Old East Village Community Association Facebook page, and many have noted there has been a noticeable increase in missing cats in the neighbourhood.
“But you can’t tie that to one person,” Foster said.