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cat-rescueTwo alert Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Deputies approached a suspicious car behind a closed business Saturday night. The occupants of the vehicle were in possession of narcotics.

As the deputies were searching the vehicle, they found a cat buried upside-down in a cat carrier. As they removed the cat out of carrier, they were shocked to see that the cat’s paws were each individually taped with electrical tape and then both of the cat’s front and rear legs were bound together.

The helpless cat could not move and was “meowing loudly in discomfort” as the deputies worked quickly to free him. Animal Control Officers came and took the cat and the owner is facing additional animal cruelty charges.

 

 

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51 Comments

  1. Tracee Lee says:

    Ill take him and l love him!

  2. Thank goodness the cat has been saved from those evil people.

  3. Lisa Faye says:

    This is just horrible! I hope they will NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ANOTHER PET,,, NEVER EVER!!!

  4. Mike Finley says:

    ?People are sick why tape the cats paws

  5. Who are these low life’s?

  6. #laso ! Deputies are awesome, hopefully one of them will adopt the kitten and give it a forever home.

  7. Mean people s..k. Duct tape their legs together?

  8. Bless the deputies for caring enough to want to save such a beautiful feline.

  9. Emily Kurt says:

    Omggg looks like the cat that this couple came into my work with

  10. Maria Ochoa says:

    Hope they get what is coming to them. They deserve to be done the same way.

  11. The piece of %#~% that did this to that beautiful, sweet kitty –

  12. That’s my hubby holding the kitty! Migdalia DominguezDan Dominguez

  13. This is disgusting!! Ughhhh!!!

  14. Sicko people!! Hope they Rot in Hell!!

  15. So glad they found the kitty before it was too late! People are so evil and sick! High or not this isn’t something you do!

  16. John Gilbert says:

    Scumbags. Prop 47 is thier friend.

  17. Echo Raphael says:

    This makes me sooo sad :((((

  18. David Hauck says:

    I don’t do that to any animal

  19. So sad why are people so cruel

  20. Yaeko Tsuboi says:

    What is the matter with some people……. brutal .

  21. Andrea Evers says:

    Animal cruelty/ abuse is now classified as a felony. They better throw the book at these A-holes. http://barkpost.com/animal-cruelty-felony/

  22. This is so sad. I hope they were thrown in a jail cell and that their arms and legs are taped and they are laying in it upside down like they did to this precious fur baby. God bless this kitty and hope it finds a new loving home. As for those scumbags, may they rot in hell !!!

  23. Shirley says:

    join my animal lovers group on facebook, it is called “Furever Love” I hate animal abusers, and drug addicts.

  24. If they do things like that to animals,they are a danger to people,sick!

  25. Matt Bilyeu says:

    At a minimum, the people that did this should publicly have their limbs bound together with electrical tape and then hog tied and hung up for all to see.

  26. Too many dumb ass people out there! This is what happens when the Government butts in and starts taking care of everyone. Survival of the fittest!

  27. What is wrong with people?! That poor baby :( so happy the sheriff’s rescued it and that the couple is being charged accordingly. Didn’t federal law just make animal cruelty a felony?

  28. omg i hate these kind of people they should be treated same

  29. Those 2 should be taped up like this & left that way!! They should not be allowed to own pets ever again!!!!

  30. Poor Kitty. I’d love to give it a home if my fiancé wasn’t so allergic. But God, someone who would do this to an animal…deserves the worst.

  31. Birgit Mains says:

    I wish more people go to Gail for animal abuse!!!

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