Rescued kittens were found colored in with blue and green permanent markers

NY Daily News ^ | April 27, 2016 | JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

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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.”

[trebb]

you know that's kinda insulting to a degree. You're preaching to the choir. Those of us, on FreeRepublic actually do know what is happening to babies, and are aware that the numbers being reported are, probably, on the "low" side of the actual numbers. Now, that being said, a woman makes the actual decision to terminate the life she is carrying, animals on the other hand have NO say in what happens to them. THEY are at the total mercy of humans (I know babies are too, and YOU know what I mean).

Sigh - I just pointed out a fact - many care so much for the animals that they take attention away from the babies. I love animals but would allow dogs and cats to be massacred wholesale if it meant abortions would stop - there are too many that would hedge and try to decide how many animals were worth x number of babies' lives.