Trapping Incident #101

Summary:

A local reporter found her cat, Kitty, mewling outside her open apartment window. The bone of his front leg were visible through broken and bleeding skin. Horrified, she brought him inside, where he dragged his way across the kitchen floor, trailing blood from his limp paw. “It looked really alien,” she said. “He was bleeding everywhere.” When she took Kitty to the vet the next morning, she was told the animal’s wounds did not seem to be have been caused by an animal attack or a car accident. There were no teeth marks or crushed bones, and the cat was otherwise uninjured. The vet told her the fracture and missing skin were consistent with those of a cat trying desperately to free itself from a wire snare. Unfortunately, the wounds were also too severe to save the cat’s leg. It would have to be amputated, at a cost of more than $500.

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