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Rescued kittens were found colored in with blue and green permanent markers
NY Daily News ^ | April 27, 2016 | JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

Posted on 04/27/2016 7:31:04 PM PDT by EinNYC

A couple of five-week-old kittens were named Shrek and Smurf by a rescue staff after they were found colored blue and green with permanent marker.

The naturally black-and-white cats were discovered with all of their white spots colored in and were brought to Bradford Cat Watch Rescue by the West Yorkshire Police.

“This is a dreadful act of cruelty, and who knows what untold damage this may have caused,” charity volunteer Katie Jane Lloyd told BBC.

The Bradford Cat Watch Rescue has sought help from veterinary poisons information services for assistance in cleaning Shrek and Smurf, according to BBC.

The kittens have been bathed repeatedly since they were found Monday, but the blue and green ink remains embedded in their fur.

Lloyd has posted a series of updates about the pair and most recently said the kittens were doing “really well.’

“We have been nursing these kittens for the last 36 hours and they are now much brighter... in personality,” she wrote on Tuesday. “The color is fading and they are now taking their feeds well.”


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittens
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To: EinNYC

If that was the reason...I withdraw my previous “benefit of a doubt” post.


21 posted on 04/27/2016 7:51:38 PM PDT by berdie (#No Hill/bern)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My daughters did something similar, when they were little. We had a white cat; they used a marker to color him pink. They meant no harm, and none was suffered. The cat was fine.


22 posted on 04/27/2016 8:06:52 PM PDT by VietVet
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To: berdie; Mastador1

Yeah, I would agree that this is a less serious incident that probably involved kids being kids.

But the other day I was looking for pictures of German Shepherd faces to post in the cat thread, and I came across this picture that just broke me down.

It was of Vucko the German Shepherd. Two Drunken Bosnian youths apparently decided to entertain themselves by placing a fire cracker in his muzzle, then duct taping it shut and detonating it.

They blew his entire face off. All he had left was an eye.

Vucko apparently wandered around like this for 5 days while maggots ate the remains of his face.

Doctors were not able to reconstruct what was blown off, and Vucko had to be put down.

I’ve still got that stuff in my head, I can’t really tolerate people doing stuff like this to animals, so that’s why I said people are such dicks.

Admittedly, this story with the kittens is not as serious as what happened to Vucko, R.I.P.

http://www.care2.com/causes/vucko-the-dog-face-blown-off-with-firecracker.html


23 posted on 04/27/2016 8:20:05 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
The kittens have been bathed repeatedly since they were found Monday,

Who could do that to poor little kitties?


24 posted on 04/27/2016 8:21:33 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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To: cyclotic
This is stupid and immature, not cruelty. Natural oils will break the Bond between fur and ink with no harm.

However, cats regularly cleanse themselves by licking their coats, so they could ingest the ink.

25 posted on 04/27/2016 8:28:31 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: EinNYC

Glad to hear they are recovering.


26 posted on 04/27/2016 8:58:15 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

No, I say let’s lynch whoever dared color a cat’s hair with marker.

Good grief, the reaction to this is insane.


27 posted on 04/27/2016 9:06:37 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: chris37

I can’t click on the link...forgive me. Your description was enough.

I can see why you said what you did. In Vucko’s circumstances I can think of much worse word than dick for the people that did such a horrible thing.


28 posted on 04/27/2016 9:08:10 PM PDT by berdie (#No Hill/bern)
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To: berdie

Sometimes dogs, as well as other animals, pay an incredibly high price for being our friends.

I haven’t been able to get Vucko out my head since I read about him.

I don’t know how we do these things to God’s wonderful animals.

It makes me ashamed to be a human being.

But then I remember for all of those of us who hurt, there are those of us who help.

So I don’t know, I’m very troubled by cruelty to animals.

I don’t know how the people that did that to Vucko can even live with themselves.

If I knew that I did something like that, I’d kill myself.


29 posted on 04/27/2016 9:22:07 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

Some people just need killing.


30 posted on 04/27/2016 9:30:01 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Some very damn bad apples among us sadly.


31 posted on 04/27/2016 9:42:53 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

Thank you I will pass on visiting the link. I understand that there are sick people in the world, but someone trying to raise the minor infraction of coloring kittens with markers to the level they did in this article simply takes away from actual horrific acts such as that committed on the German Shepherd.


32 posted on 04/27/2016 9:43:20 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

I agree with that. I saw something up thread that suggested that coloring might have something to do with tossing kittens to fighting dogs or something like that.

I don’t know if that is the case or not, but I hope not.

If this kitten coloring was just a case of kids being kids, then it shouldn’t be blown out of proportion.


33 posted on 04/27/2016 9:50:56 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

I’m deeply troubled by animal cruelty as well.

And child cruelty.

I guess I’m deeply troubled about the state of our world.


34 posted on 04/27/2016 9:56:31 PM PDT by berdie (#No Hill/bern)
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To: berdie

People have the capacity for great good and also for great evil.

For my own life, I am glad that Jesus has guided me.


35 posted on 04/27/2016 9:59:15 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: EinNYC

i paged down but can’t see the pink or green haired youngster pictures.


36 posted on 04/27/2016 11:15:51 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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37 posted on 04/28/2016 1:05:44 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows; EinNYC
What?


38 posted on 04/28/2016 2:28:01 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: JoeProBono
They even give prizes.


39 posted on 04/28/2016 2:33:21 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: EinNYC
I'm sure those who are outraged about this are suffering more trauma than the cats. Who hasn't gotten such marker on themselves? Anyone been made ill from it? Anyone been emotionally scarred for life?

IMO, all these stories are designed to turn folks' attention away from the wholesale murder of babies and so many bite that it's amazing anyone even realizes that babies are being murdered everyday - I guess babies just ain't as cute as puppies and kittens to a lot of folks....

40 posted on 04/28/2016 3:25:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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