Summary

In late January 2026, residents of Chunyu Garden in Goya Apartment, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, reported repeated discoveries of cat bodies. Jimu News, in a report republished by Phoenix, interviewed the online poster, property staff and the local police station. A resident said several cats in the community had died, some allegedly thrown to death or strangled. Property staff said patrols found cat bodies with injuries and had reported the matter to public security. The local police station said the incident was still being handled. The stray cats had no owner and no way to call for help; they deserved humane deterrence, rescue or proper community management, not cruel harm.

Community Notice and Resident Accounts

The Phoenix republication of Jimu News reported that on January 24, 2026, an online user posted that multiple cat abuse incidents had occurred in Chunyu Garden, Goya Apartment, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. The post included a safety notice saying that malicious cat abuse had recently occurred in Chunyu Garden, reminding residents to take proper care of pets and stating that the matter had been reported to police.

On January 25, the poster told Jimu News that she had rented in Chunyu Garden for many years. She said she heard from neighbors on January 21 that a cat had been abused, and the next morning saw two cats that had been thrown to death near garbage bins. Residents had called police, filed a real-name complaint through 12345 and posted notices in the community. According to this interviewed resident, five cats had been found dead; some were thrown to death, some were strangled, and they were believed to be stray cats.

The exact number and methods of injury come from a resident’s statement to media and still require further confirmation from police or other authoritative channels. Even so, the publicly reported facts already show a serious public-safety and animal-harm incident: cat bodies with injuries were repeatedly found in a residential community. Stray cats already live in unstable urban spaces. If they were deliberately thrown or strangled, that is not “cleaning up” or “driving away”; it is cruelty toward small and vulnerable lives.

Property and Police Response

In the Jimu News report, property staff said they found cat bodies during work patrols, saw injuries on the bodies, reported the matter to public security and posted reminders in the owners’ group. They also said some bodies were found by staff and others by security guards during night patrols, and that owners had complained about similar issues before.

A staff member of the local police station told Jimu News that the matter was still being further handled. Public reporting had not disclosed a suspect’s identity, motive, whether there was a group, whether any minor was involved, or whether the person was a resident of the community.

The property notice, residents’ reports and police response show that the incident was no longer only an online discussion. It had entered the community’s public space and a police handling process. For such harm, the priority is to stop any continuation, preserve surveillance footage, patrol records, police reports and scene leads, and not let the suffering be dismissed with the phrase “stray cats.”

The Cats Should Have Been Protected

Urban stray animals can bring real issues of hygiene, noise and feeding management. Those issues require community, property management, residents and animal-protection groups to respond together. But addressing a problem cannot mean abusing or killing animals. Humane deterrence, sterilization and rescue, regulated feeding, adoption transfer and better patrols are closer to the order a community should have.

In this case, the cats in public reports have no names. They appear only as “cat bodies,” “stray cats,” and “bodies with injuries.” They may once have waited downstairs for water or food, or simply passed through the garbage area, garage edge or green belt. Precisely because they were ownerless, weak and hard to remember as individuals, recording their deaths matters. A life without a name should not be silently allowed to suffer.

Timeline

• Around January 21, 2026: An interviewed resident told Jimu News she heard from neighbors that a cat in the community had been abused.
• Around January 22, 2026: The same resident said she saw two cats thrown to death near garbage bins the next morning.
• January 24, 2026: An online user posted that multiple cat abuse incidents had occurred in Chunyu Garden, with a community safety notice attached.
• January 25, 2026: Jimu News interviewed the poster. She said five cats had been found dead, some thrown to death and some strangled, and believed they were stray cats.
• January 25-26, 2026: Property staff said patrols found injured cat bodies and reported the matter to public security; the local police station said the case was still being handled.

Public Sources

• Phoenix republication of Jimu News, “Hangzhou community exposed for multiple cat abuse incidents; resident says cats were thrown or strangled to death,” January 26, 2026. https://sn.ifeng.com/c/8qCkag6Sac2
• Sina mobile aggregation page, “Hangzhou cat abuse incident draws attention.” https://www.sina.cn/news/detail/5259065286462232.html
• Sina short-link lead: https://t.cn/AXqUHZtZ, pointing to public discussion of the Hangzhou community cat abuse case.

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