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Dozens of kittens and several adult cats have been rescued by police after an investigation into allegations of animal cruelty.<\/p>\n
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The investigation began April 1 when Peel Regional Police<\/a> received information from Animal Welfare<\/a> Services (AWS) about multiple incidents in which kittens were sold in \u201cdistressing conditions\u201d and later died from their injuries after being taken to their new homes.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n Investigators with 11 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) executed a search warrant on April 23 in collaboration with Animal Welfare Services.<\/p>\n A total of 57 kittens and eight adult cats were rescued during the search and taken to an animal rescue centre. The animals received urgent veterinary care.<\/p>\n A 38-year-old man from Mississauga has been arrested and charged with 134 counts of causing unnecessary suffering to animals. The person was being held in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Crime Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Police said the rescued animals are now in the care and custody of the animal shelter, where they will remain pending judicial outcome.<\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 905-453-2121 ext. 1133. Anonymous information can also be provided to CrimeStoppers.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Dozens of kittens and several adult cats have been rescued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[33749,27093,20860,49,48,2169,55405,35243],"class_list":["post-675918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-animal-abuse","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-welfare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-mississauga","tag-peel-regional-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\")
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