Has anyone heard about this? It's so sad. That kitten is just too cute! I hope he makes it and someone adopts him and gives him a lot of love and a wonderful life. Poor thing.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289880,00.html

COTATI, Calif. — A 3-month-old cat is clinging to life at a Sonoma County animal hospital after having been set on fire by two teenage girls who now face charges of animal cruelty.

The kitten, named Adam by hospital staff, has undergone two surgeries and had its tail and the tips of its ears amputated. The skin on its back was burned off in the attack, leaving nothing but raw tissue.

"The degree of injury is greater than our normal level of trauma that we care for," said Katheryn Hinkle, the head veterinarian and owner of the Animal Hospital of Cotati. "He's our most critical patient, and we're watching him constantly."

The cat, one of several feral felines trapped for spaying and neutering, was in a cage outside an apartment in Santa Rosa when two 15-year-old girls allegedly poured flammable liquid on the animal and set it on fire last month.

An 11-year-old boy and his friend saw the smoke and heard the cat, then eight weeks old, shrieking while the girls laughed. The girls, whose names have not been released, were charged with cruelty to animals in Sonoma County Juvenile Court last week.

With so much exposed skin, the cat is vulnerable to infection, Hinkle said. It cannot leave its cage and must be handled only with gloves. It will need several more surgeries to cover the wound on its back with skin.

The kitten was among six wild litter mates and a male cat captured by a trapper on a farm. The plan was to have the cats spayed and neutered and then released back to the farm. The cages with the kittens were stolen and only Adam has been found.

According to Hinkle, the bill to keep the kitten alive could run between $20,000 and $30,000 even though the vet performing its surgeries has donated her services. The community's concern for the cat has prompted anger in some Sonoma County residents, who complain that the slaying of a 16-year-old boy in the same neighborhood last year did not receive as much attention.

Those bitches who did that to that kitten need to be strung up!

Posted by monster Those bitches who did that to that kitten need to be strung up!

Well put.

I know it's so sad isn't it. I hope that every single day they're in jail, someone decides to beat the piss out of them.

Sometime last year in China, there was a nurse who made a video of herself killing a kitten by impaling it with high-heels she was wearing. Sometimes it sucks that we're the top of the food chain.

Posted by racetraitor Sometime last year in China, there was a nurse who made a video of herself killing a kitten by impaling it with high-heels she was wearing. Sometimes it sucks that we're the top of the food chain.

Naw. We're just part of it. When we die, our bodies are broken down and feed the plants. The food chain is more of a circle.

And seeing shit like that makes me ashamed to be a human.

Posted by rainman8889 Naw. We're just part of it. When we die, our bodies are broken down and feed the plants. The food chain is more of a circle.

But I don't want to wait! I want a giant bird to swoop out of the sky and grab up all animal abusers in its talons to take back for its young to feed on.

Posted by racetraitor But I don't want to wait! I want a giant bird to swoop out of the sky and grab up all animal abusers in its talons to take back for its young to feed on.

Now there's a concept! I like that.

Sadly, if the animal abusers are not pre-processed by bacteria, they will only cause severe food poisoning for the young! Goes to show that the giant birds know what's best for their young.

Cases like this need special attention.

And by that, I mean, someone needs to set them on fire. An eye for an eye, if you will. Animal or not, my thoughts on justice still apply. People like this need to be cleansed from this world, and fast. It'd be a much better place in the end.

Thats sad.. Someone shoulda set the 2 girls on fire..