AR-News: (US SD) Animal cruelty can come in many forms

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BY DONNA SMITH, Black Hills PioneerApril 05, 2004



LEAD -- Volunteers at the Twin City Animal Shelter are accustomed to 
receiving odd calls about abandoned animals. But every so often a case of animal 
cruelty and abuse is so severe that it surprises even those seasoned workers and 
the medical professionals. 
One cat still has a few lives left, thanks to the efforts of a group of young 
people in Lead who found the cat and called the shelter. The animal's life 
was saved in spite of serious injuries stemming from an embedded choke-collar.

 
The cat was founded abandoned in the Washington Street area of Lead several 
weeks ago. Dr. Tom Huhnerkoch described the cat's injuries, "(The cat had)...a 
small dog choker chain originally around its neck... the cat had worked its 
left leg up and through the chin...it had grown into and under the skin in the 
left armpit so it must have been there for months. It was cutting the left arm 
off slowly and was very infected as (is) any untreated wound of this type."

The cat had to be anesthetized to allow the doctor to use wire cutters 







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