When the occupants of a Morningside social housing unit in Brisbane were evicted on 7 July, the state’s housing department and police left one resident behind: Smokey, Paris Cumming’s cat. The jet black feline was left inside after the unit was locked and boarded up.
Paris’s father, Craig Cumming, says he frantically contacted everyone from the RSPCA to housing officers and police but government departments “didn’t seem to be interested in the welfare of this animal”.
