I must admit a certain sympathy for that woman who put that cat in the bin.
What are the true costs of the plague of cats that blight suburban Britain?
My vegetable patch is abundantly crapped in by neighbours cats, and I can't really eat the produce - I'm concerned by toxoplasmosis (look it up!), so I have to buy in veg, sometimes with a lot of food mile consequences.
Toxoplasmosis increases nervous reaction time, and decreases risk aversion, so it has been linked to causing many road accidents and so on. These cost the economy many millions - suffering, waste, and expensive time wasting delays for all affected.
They say most domestic cats only kill "1 or 2 birds a year" but there are probably only 1 or 2 birds per cat in the suburbs. Because of the scarcity of birds, the RSPB buys up land (a man in our pub assures me that the RSPB are the biggest land owner in Britain). So the RSPB is causing land price demand, and thus price increases, so bigger mortgages for all.
Cats kill indiscriminately frogs, hedgehogs, butterflies, bats, dormice etc etc. How much resource is diverted into helping these species that introduced predators (cats) are threatening.
Charities like RSPB and St Tiggywinkles don't pay tax, and people are diverting funds that would go into the normal economy if they werent trying to undo cat kills. HMRC loses income from tax from legacies that are left to RSPB etc.
Its time that a hefty fee for a cat licence was brought in to make the selfish cat lovers pay for their filthy habit