(UPDATE: October 20, 2014 – Trooper the kitten has been adopted by the man who picked it up from the highway after it was thrown. The kitten is recovering from surgery it required due to its injuries, including having one eye removed. )
LETHBRIDGE – It’s a disturbing image Christopher Stone won’t soon forget; a kitten being thrown out of a moving vehicle on Highway 5 just outside of Lethbridge.
He swerved into the ditch, so as to not run over the kitten. Then he jumped out of his van, scooped her up and rushed her the Lethbridge Animal Shelter.
“I wish I would have gotten the license plate. That wasn’t the first concern, it was to get her off the road,” he said.
When Stone brought her to the shelter, the cat was in shock and bleeding heavily from the eye.
Animal rescuer Trudy Smith heard about the incident, and immediately offered her services. Since the kitten was injured outside of the city limits, the shelter couldn’t treat her, so she took her to a veterinary hospital in Nanton.
“People need to know that this is not acceptable. You do not take an animal or anything and abuse it in that kind of a form,” she said.
The kitten, who has been given the name Trooper, has undergone surgery to have her eye removed and is currently in recovery. Smith is hoping someone will recognize Trooper and come forward with information about her previous owners.
“Society this day and age will not accept this kind of abuse to animals. You just don’t dump them and you don’t throw them out of a moving vehicle.”
Stone says he did what he hopes anyone would do in his position. He has decided to adopt trooper, and will bring her home once she is fully recovered.
“We’re definitely excited to have her come and live with us and actually be in a home where she’s loved and appreciated,” he said.
The public is asked to contact RCMP, if they have any information regarding Trooper.
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