Animal rescue workers dedicate their lives to saving neglected and abused animals, and are unfortunately used to finding desperate animals in heartbreaking situations.
Yet rescuers from the Animal Welfare League Of Montgomery County in Indiana were completely horrified and speechless by the state of a poor cat who was found in critical condition and left to die in the middle of a corn field.
Late last Wednesday night, retired firefighter Steve Wright looked out the back of his house, which looks out onto the corn field, and noticed there were flames and smoke. He immediately ran out to see what was going on, but was shocked to discover a cat had been the source of the flames. The cat was tied up with rope and had been doused with gasoline before being lit on fire.
Miraculously, the fireworks strapped to her back hadn’t gone off and she was still alive. “It was very, very quiet. And it was moving slightly but being bound it couldn’t move much,” Wright said. Wright contacted the Animal Welfare League and rushed the scared cat, who they later named Phoenix, to the ICU at an animal hospital and started raising money for her extensive treatments.
While it’s a miracle that Phoenix survived the abuse, she faces a very long and difficult recovery and her doctors are not sure if she’ll survive. And if they can’t save her, the Animal Welfare League is determined to at least get justice for Phoenix since her abuser, 19-year-old Noah Riley, just turned himself in to police over the weekend after the shelter started spreading the cat’s story online.
Do you think this teenager should be punished for what he did? Let us know what you think in the comments below and please SHARE this with friends on Facebook.
[Featured image: Facebook/Animal Welfare League]
Cat Is Alive After Teen Doused It In Gasoline And Lit It On Fire is an article from: LifeDaily