Moment cruel train worker throws passenger’s CAT ‘Twix’ off moving carriage into snow sparking fury & desperate search

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THIS IS the moment a cruel train attendant threw a cat off a long-distance train into freezing temperatures.

A huge search is now underway for the poor pet, Twix, who hasn’t been seen in the eight days since the incident.

A huge search is underway in Russia for a cat after the pet was thrown out of a long-distance train into minus 30C cold by a cruel female attendant..Twix the cat (pictured)[/caption]

The female attendant cruelly chucked the cat into the cold after he escaped from his cage[/caption]

A reward of £265 has been offered for the pet[/caption]

Witnesses said the female attendant threw the cat into minus 30 degree temps after he escaped from his travelling cage.

The male cat was last seen by snow-sweepers in Kirov – a remote stop in western Russia.

The snow-sweepers reported seeing the cat being picked up by a woman who asked if he was homeless.

But he allegedly fled from her and hasn’t been seen since.

A reward of £265 – more than the average monthly salary in Kirov – has been offered for the cat.

Posters have been plastered around Kirov, seeking the return of Twix to his owner Edgar Gaifullin, 25, who lives in St Petersburg.

Edgar’s father Yevgeny Gryzlov had been transporting the cat and it remains unclear how the animal came to be out of his cage.

Fury has mounted over the cruel treatment of Twix, and a wealth of criticism has been directed at the female attendant.

Animal welfare campaigner Olga Kudryashova, who is leading the hunt for Twix, raged over the unnamed train attendant who kicked him out of the train.

She said: “It is simply incomprehensible how anyone can throw the cat out of the train.

“The attendant knew perfectly well that a cat was being transported, and this is such a cruel thing to do to an animal.”

“It’s winter, so cold, and the cat was thrown out of the train. It was minus 30C at night and minus 25C in daytime.”

Kudryashova added that, although the searches “have been in vain so far”, the cat was seen and that she maintained that he is alive.

The owner of the cat, Edgar, has said that he didn’t want the attendant to be sacked over the cruel act but was upset “she didn’t even apologise”.

Edgar said: “She has children. I did not ask for her to be fired.”

“The main thing for me is that he is found.”

The cat had just undergone bowel surgery while staying with his parents, he revealed.

“This is not just property, but a family member whom we love and are waiting for.”

Most Russian officials have sided with the train attendant who “acted in line with regulations”, RIA Novosti news outlet reported.

Many of them have argued that, even though the cat had a ticket, he should have been in his carrying cage at all times.

The attendant has claimed she believed it was a stray that had wandered aboard – but passengers say she knew perfectly well the cat had a ticket and was en route to St Petersburg with its owner.

Lawyer Dmitry Roshchin told RIA Novosti: “There cannot be a criminal case here, because there is no intent.

“There is no arbitrariness. The train attendant did not exceed her authority.

“On the contrary, she must maintain order in the train carriage.”

Russian Railways also insisted: “the attendant acted strictly in accordance with official instructions”.

But staunchly pro-Putin MP Vladimir Burmatov, a fervent war backer and deputy chairman of the parliamentary environmental protection committee, said: “Of course, we need to find out the fate of the cat…

“If, God forbid, it ends in a tragedy for the animal, either health problems or death, then this can be qualified as cruel treatment.”

He claimed the attendant might be guilty of “intentional killing” which might lead to criminal punishment.

The tidal wave of sympathy for the lost cat has provoked some commenters to question how Russians can feel so much for a pet, yet “remain uncaring to the fate of Ukrainians in Putin’s barbaric war”.

Since the onset of the war, Putin has been using barbaric, Hitler-esque starvation tactics to “terrorise, subjugate and kill” Ukrainians.

His calculated plan to starve Ukraine into submission has seen armed sieges, bread queue massacres, and the purposeful pillaging of farming machinery.

Meanwhile, his own troops have been treated equally as cruelly, with little to no regard for the diseases they suffer on the frontline.

In late December, rat-bite fever shot through the Russian trenches, but the agony of the affected was ignored – as fevers are viewed as excuses to avoid combat.

At the same time, “suicidal meat assaults” were becoming increasingly more frequent – with Putin sending thousands of men to their death in a single weekend.