A tooth fell out while we were first holding him.” He was taken to an emergency veterinary hospital, “where he was given medication and fed through a tube.” It was believed that he’d been “attacked by a small animal,” and he was expected to undergo weeks of treatment.Īugust 2022/Patchogue, New York: reported that a homeless cat, who had apparently been sterilized, ear-tipped, and abandoned outdoors had been found paralyzed and trapped inside a resident’s pool filter. He has a puncture wound under his left eye, his top teeth are missing, his mouth has injuries. He was taken to an animal adoption group, where a spokesperson said that he had sustained “severe injuries to his face. According to the report, “In granting the defense request to dismiss the charge … Judge Kelsey Kawano said the animal desertion statute ‘is overbroad.’ … ‘It interferes with a person’s constitutional right to use and enjoy one’s property,’ he said.”Īugust 2022/Hayden, Idaho: reported that a homeless kitten had been found injured.
He was taken to a veterinary hospital, where he had to be euthanized because of the severity of the injuries he’d sustained. Eleven days later, he was found in a road by a good Samaritan after he’d been hit by a car. He was later trapped a second time and abandoned “near the … restrooms” at a park. According to the report, the woman had first trapped the cat and taken him to an animal shelter, which returned him to the owner. Countless others have died frightened and alone under porches or behind dumpsters, without anyone ever noticing what became of them.Īugust 2022/Maui County, Hawaii: reported that charges had been dismissed against a woman who had captured a neighbor’s roaming cat in a trap and abandoned him at a public park. So many people become upset by roaming cats that legislation was introduced in Wisconsin and Utah to make it legal to stalk, hunt, and kill domestic cats! The bills failed, thanks to an outcry from animal activists and compassionate citizens, but that these bills were introduced at all should serve as a wake-up call for those who claim to care about cats-they are not safe outdoors.īecause of the many deadly hazards that cats face outdoors, responsible guardians allow their feline companions outdoors only when on a leash, in an enclosed area (such as a screened porch), or closely supervised.īelow is just a sampling of some of the horrible fates that have recently befallen stray, feral, and free-roaming cats.
When animal shelters refuse to accept cats (as more and more so-called “no kill” facilities are doing), property owners often take matters into their own hands and resort to cruelty, both intentional and unintentional. Not everyone loves cats or wants them climbing on their cars, maiming or killing birds, or digging in their gardens. Right or wrong, many property and business owners do not want cats on their property. Cruel people often poison, shoot, burn, drown, or otherwise torture and kill cats. Cats outdoors are vulnerable to contagious diseases, parasite infestations, starvation, dehydration, freezing, heatstroke, attacks by dogs and other predators, and being hit by vehicles. So-called “trap-neuter-release” (TNR) programs-or, more accurately, “trap-neuter-reabandon” programs-may allow limited-admission shelters to spin their intake and euthanasia numbers, but they do nothing to protect cats from the horrors that befall them when left outdoors to battle harsh surroundings, sickness, and sadistic people.Ĭountless cats who are left outdoors without protection die from infected wounds and injuries, as even small abscesses and common urinary tract infections can become raging and deadly for unsocialized cats who cannot be handled and treated.
Some animal shelters manipulate their euthanasia statistics by instituting policies that leave animals to struggle for survival and die painfully on the streets.
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