Family Cat Thrown Off Bridge With 16-Pound Rock Attached To Cage - Rescued

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MISSOULA, Montana -- There has been a happy ending on what started as a case of animal cruelty.

Passers-by spotted the calico house cat Tuesday morning while crossing a footbridge by Montana’s icy Clark Fork River. They called for help, and Missoula firefighters responded. Firefighters lowered a boat onto the ice, and retrieved the soaking-wet cat.

Someone had put the animal in a cage, along with a rock weighing about 16 pounds, and tossed it over the bridge. But instead of landing in the water, the caged cat landed on the ice and bounced several times, coming to a stop in an icy puddle of slush.

It's unclear how long the cat had been there.

Despite its ordeal, one of the cat's rescuers said she was really friendly, and dined on leftover Christmas turkey at the firehouse.

One of the firefighters then took the vet-checked cat home to his daughter. They named their new pet "Lucky."

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have had to suffer longer. Hopefully, they'll print the cage and find out who did it.

Brutal death to animal abusers.

only death seems to gentle an option. Here's a case in which I might approve of torture for these m'f'ing scumbags.

I mean... what the fuck is wrong with people?

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echo, WTF is wrong with people.

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I think it was more a thrill-kill or something. If you really wanted to get rid of a cat, and were too stupid to think of the humane society, you'd only have to put the cat in the car, drive 40 miles into the nowhere, stop, toss the kitty out the window, and drive away. (Not that i would do such a thing. I love my pets!)

But, putting it in a cage, tying a rock to the cage and tossing it into a river sounds like a sadistic thrill-kill.
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:shrug: I sure hope not.

for prints? They should find these people and charge them!

or mad ex-spouse /lover that tried to drown the cat, not the owners. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the owners.

It reminds me of my friend who saw a dog on the side of the freeway as she was driving by. She stopped and went to it. It was starving and injured. It just sat there looking at her with no attempt to bark or growl or protect itself. She helped it into her car and took it to a vet.

People can be so cruel.

I hope the folks who did that to that defenseless kitty have very painful existences from now on. That makes me sick.