Cat skinned, mutilated
Brady, NE (US)

Incident Date: Monday, Jul 4, 2005
County: Lincoln

Disposition: Open

Suspect(s) Unknown - We need your help!

On the Fourth of July weekend, a mother cat crawled to her babies with the last of her strength. She had been tortured and her back legs weren't working. Beth Fisher of Brady, the owner of Smokie the cat, said they discovered her lying next to the house. Smokie was alive but very badly hurt.

"She had only a tuft of fur left on the end of her tail," Fisher said. "The tail had been skinned pretty much to the bone."

Fisher said there was no fur left on the back of Smokie's legs.

"She was dragging her back legs," Fisher said. "I first thought she had been hit by a car. Then we found strings tied to what was left of her tail. I had to use scissors to cut two of the strings off."

Smokie was a one and half-year-old shorthaired calico that was nursing four kittens.

Fisher said her cat usually stayed around their house, never wandering far from home because of the kittens.

Fisher said they are unsure how Smokie was tortured, but whoever did it may have used fireworks on Smokie. "She was just so inflamed and I'm sure infection would have set in," Fisher said. "We had to put her to sleep."

They have found homes for two of the motherless kittens.

References

• North Platte Telegraph -July 21, 2005

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