A Nigerian woman has reportedly thrown her pet cat out on the streets for being gay.

In a bizarre tale which has gripped the town of Lafia, a seven-year-old kitty cat named Bull is now homeless and alone because his behaviour was seen as homosexual.

The middle-aged woman claims that Bull has engaged in ‘unnatural sexual behaviour’ and has been making advances to other male cats in the house even though there are female cats present.

The unnamed woman told Nigerian newspaper Leadership said she found the behaviour ‘disturbing and a contradiction of the laws of nature’.

Having publicly declared the cat as gay, she added: ‘Anybody interested in this gay cat can have it because I have no further use of it.’