Cat 'house of horrors' discovered in Shanghai Around 50 cat lovers gathered on Wednesday outside the apartment of Zhou Yang, a woman who lived in a shared apartment in the suburbs of Shanghai. Many of them had reportedly donated kittens to Ms Zhou over the past two years. One 24-year-old activist, named Caphy Yang, said she had led a small group of people to the apartment and been let in by one of Ms Zhou's flatmates. When we entered the apartment, one of us found three headless cats in her kitchen trash bin. It was appalling," she said, to the Chinese state media. Yang said she had given Zhou two kittens in March after receiving promises that they would be well cared for. The alarm was raised earlier this month when one woman, who had donated a cat to Ms Zhou, found its body on the lawn in front of Ms Zhou's apartment. Ms Yang claimed that Ms Zhou is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of cats. Cleaning staff at the apartment block said they had often found decapitated cats in the rubbish bins. "It is so sickening as I still remember the day in November last year when Zhou came to my apartment to adopt the cat," said Ms Yang. "She held the cat in her arms to kiss it in front me, wearing such a kind-hearted face," she added. But when I wanted to pay a visit, I called her 20 times and she never picked up the phone. Ms Yang said Ms Zhou had not denied harming the cats when confronted. "She told us they were her cats and she could do whatever she wanted with them," she said. Ms Zhou has since gone into hiding and has turned off her mobile phone. She told the Global Times newspaper that the animal lovers were "a mob" that had "violated her rights." The police initially detained both the activists, for trespassing, and Ms Zhou, but later released everyone, warning the activists not to harass Ms Zhou further. There are no specific laws banning cruelty to small animals in China. China released a draft of the animal protection law in September 2009, but the law has not been passed.