A woman is furious with council workers after they burned her dead cat’s body without telling her – and offered her £100 for her distress. Stephanie Lucas said she found out on social media that her one-year-old cat Chowder had been run over and killed and immediately called vets to see if she could find his body. After being unable to find him, Stephanie called Brighton and Hove City Council to find out if his body might have been collected.
Council workers initially told her his body had been taken to the vets – but it later transpired that it had just been incinerated. The council later offered her £100 for “the avoidable distress” it had caused her. Mum-of-four Stephanie, 41, said: “I would have liked my children to have a bit of a send-off for him.
They are devastated. “It was disgusting. Because it happened on a Sunday they didn’t hand his body in to the vets.
” Stephanie, who lives near Preston Park, said she had been informed that Chowder had been run over through a post in a Brighton cat owners Facebook group on Sunday, October 20, and began to call around to find out if his body had been handed in. After being unable to find him she called the council, which initially told her that Chowder’s body had been taken to a vet to be identified through a microchip. Stephanie Lucas called the decision for the council to incinerate her cat without telling her 'disgusting' (Image: Stephanie Lucas) However, after vets could still not find the cat’s body, .