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The method is utilized by abusers who use the cats as live bait in dogfights.

Most other folks would drop no matter they are doing in the event that they came across a stray animal in want of some lend a hand. Whether that concerned placing out a bowl of food or a field and blanket to provide some comfort at night. 

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But if you ever spot a stray cat with their feet dyed purple, you wish to take them to the nearest animal refuge in an instant. The color choice is not the result of some local teenagers who decided to clutter with the deficient animal — it is a sign of one thing far more sinister. 

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Megan Sorbara, a cat rescue employee and founder of the Naples Cat Alliance in Florida, took to Facebook with a warning when animal control picked up a cat who’d been wandering across the streets in in most cases just right health, but with feet colored purple by permanent marker.

As Sorbara explains, the process is used by abusers who use the cats as reside bait in dogfights. She first described her experience of the cat arriving at her safe haven:

"Being in animal rescue, you hear and read about a lot of terrible things being done to poor innocent animals. And then one day, the victim of one of these terrible things shows up at your door. I consider myself pretty hardened to a lot of stuff, I have dealt with a lot of injured, emaciated, neglected and abused animals but this one really got to me."

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“Dogfighters use markers to color the white portions of cats and kittens so they may be able to guess on which colour will die first,” Sorbara wrote on Facebook. “They are ‘color-coded’ after which thrown to packs of dogs, whilst these in poor health barbarians place their bets. This is cruelty at its worst.”  

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Sorbara doesn't know how the dogfighters received the cat, however suspect he was once any individual's puppy. 

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“He could have been a cat who was owned, but they had been simply letting him free-roam,” she explained to The Dodo.

“I will’t consider he was once handled too well through those other folks after they were marking him, but I don’t truly know what he used to be subjected to prior.”

Thankfully, this cat, now named Mr. Purple Paws, in some way controlled to flee. 

“Somebody will have to have left a door open, or perhaps he got away all over transport whilst they’re going anyplace they go to have these fights in the nighttime,” Sorbara mentioned. 

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And he does not seem to have let any of his horrifying reviews get to him.

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“He’s in order that candy, rolling over on his back and giving head butts — simply cute,” Sorbara mentioned. “He doesn’t have a care in the world. He’s Mr. Happy. He used to be taking part in with toys in his cage ultimate night. You can simply pick him up, raise him round in your shoulder — he loves to be held.” 

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“This cat has no concept what he escaped, which is principally death,” Sorbara said. “After what he’s been via, and what he could doubtlessly may have ended up [as], I will’t wait to give him a probability to present him a good home.”

If you ever spot an animal with dyed ft, right away contact your local refuge, who can examine from there on. 

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