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She’s a little black kitten, purring and affectionate, but Sweetie has survived a heartless attack in which she was thrown, while already injured, onto a country road and left there.
Now the Ottawa Humane Society wants to track down her owner.
Witnesses told Humane Society investigators that around 2 p.m. Saturday, someone stopped a silver pickup truck on Colonial Road east of Navan and threw Sweetie out the front passenger window.
The driver was a man in a baseball cap. Witnesses did not get the licence number as the truck drove off.
The witnesses picked up Sweetie from the road. She was badly hurt.
The Humane Society says her tail was badly broken, with the bone poking through the skin, and it will be amputated this week. They think the injury happened before the kitten was dumped on the road, possibly by being caught in a heavy door.
Sweetie’s face was also bloodied, though this is less serious.
Bruce Roney, the society’s executive director, thinks the cat was hurt in an accident and the owner didn’t want to pay a vet’s bill.
“We take all animals at all times no matter what the condition, so that would have been an option,” he said.
What happened to the tail may be innocent, he said, but throwing a badly injured animal out a window would like be an offence the society would prosecute.
“We reserve criminal charges for the most serious cases, and in the absence of mitigating circumstance this would certainly quality (as serious). It’s the intentional injury of throwing the cat out the window” when it was already hurt. They are hoping witnesses will identify the truck.
A seven-month-old cat would be likely to die in the cold, Roney said. This one is also small for her age.
Staff at the shelter called her Sweetie because it’s so outgoing and affectionate, “a very sweet little cat.”
“Staff like to check in with these animals that have miraculous recoveries,” he said.
“Animals are amazing. You give them attention, and even if they are in pain it’s like they have a sense that they are safe and are around caring people.”
It will take Sweetie a couple of weeks to recover from the amputation, he said. Cats “do really well with amputations. I imagine she’ll be up for adoption in a couple of weeks.
“It really reinforces my belief in cats as disposable pets” that are adandoned to die when they are old or sick, Roney said. “I don’t understand, but we see it.”
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Now the Ottawa Humane Society wants to track down her owner.
Witnesses told Humane Society investigators that around 2 p.m. Saturday, someone stopped a silver pickup truck on Colonial Road east of Navan and threw Sweetie out the front passenger window.
The driver was a man in a baseball cap. Witnesses did not get the licence number as the truck drove off.
The witnesses picked up Sweetie from the road. She was badly hurt.
The Humane Society says her tail was badly broken, with the bone poking through the skin, and it will be amputated this week. They think the injury happened before the kitten was dumped on the road, possibly by being caught in a heavy door.
Sweetie’s face was also bloodied, though this is less serious.
Bruce Roney, the society’s executive director, thinks the cat was hurt in an accident and the owner didn’t want to pay a vet’s bill.
“We take all animals at all times no matter what the condition, so that would have been an option,” he said.
What happened to the tail may be innocent, he said, but throwing a badly injured animal out a window would like be an offence the society would prosecute.
“We reserve criminal charges for the most serious cases, and in the absence of mitigating circumstance this would certainly quality (as serious). It’s the intentional injury of throwing the cat out the window” when it was already hurt. They are hoping witnesses will identify the truck.
A seven-month-old cat would be likely to die in the cold, Roney said. This one is also small for her age.
Staff at the shelter called her Sweetie because it’s so outgoing and affectionate, “a very sweet little cat.”
“Staff like to check in with these animals that have miraculous recoveries,” he said.
“Animals are amazing. You give them attention, and even if they are in pain it’s like they have a sense that they are safe and are around caring people.”
It will take Sweetie a couple of weeks to recover from the amputation, he said. Cats “do really well with amputations. I imagine she’ll be up for adoption in a couple of weeks.
“It really reinforces my belief in cats as disposable pets” that are adandoned to die when they are old or sick, Roney said. “I don’t understand, but we see it.”
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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