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UPDATE: Tortured Kitten Found Alive, Dies
Holbrook resident says young feline was left in the driveway early Monday morning.
***Update: The kitten that was found in a paper bag and placed in the driveway of a Holbrook home has died at the Brookhaven Animal Shelter.***
Original Story:
A Holbrook resident is searching for medical help and a safe home for a kitten she said was stuffed in a brown paper bag and left for dead in her driveway this morning.
Alison Erhart says she and her husband was heading out of their Greenbelt Parkway house this morning at around 6 a.m. when they luckily discovered the brown bag before her husband backed up over it.
According to Erhart whoever discarded the kitten, did so by deliberately placing the bag underneath the rear tire of her husband's truck so it would be crushed. Erhart removed the kitten from the bag and is currently trying to nurse it back to health. Erhart believes the kitten was subjected to some other harm before being stuffed under the tire, because the kitten is breathing, but not moving.
She said she called the ASPCA, but was told over the phone that unless she actually witnessed the perpetrators committing the cruelty, nothing could be done. She plans to file a police report about the incident so it is on record.
An ordinarily quiet dead end section of Greenbelt Parkway West, Erhart said something like this has never happened before.
"We’ve had things like a broken window," she said. "There’s a lot of kids hanging out at the dead end. Sometimes you get troublemakers. One of my chairs was taken off my porch and we found it later, but nothing with animal cruelty."
Erhart has been calling around different shelters and veterinarian hospitals to transport the injured feline. Erhart said the Brookhaven Animal Shelter referred her to an in-house vet, but would likely charge her for the service. However Patch spoke with an employee at the shelter who said if the kitten was injured they would consider taking him in. As of print time, Erhart was transporting the kitten to the facility on Horseblock Road.
A different employee at Brookhaven Animal Shelter said that the shelter is "jam packed" with healthy kittens and sometimes has to turn away animals due to lack of space. She also said that there is no law regarding stray animals, and therefore the shelter is under no obligation to take them in.
For Erhart, the experience was unsettling, no only for her, but for her children.
"The kids get affected by it," she said. "I’m trying to explain to them why there’s a kitten in a brown paper bag in our driveway.”
Original Story:
A Holbrook resident is searching for medical help and a safe home for a kitten she said was stuffed in a brown paper bag and left for dead in her driveway this morning.
Alison Erhart says she and her husband was heading out of their Greenbelt Parkway house this morning at around 6 a.m. when they luckily discovered the brown bag before her husband backed up over it.
According to Erhart whoever discarded the kitten, did so by deliberately placing the bag underneath the rear tire of her husband's truck so it would be crushed. Erhart removed the kitten from the bag and is currently trying to nurse it back to health. Erhart believes the kitten was subjected to some other harm before being stuffed under the tire, because the kitten is breathing, but not moving.
She said she called the ASPCA, but was told over the phone that unless she actually witnessed the perpetrators committing the cruelty, nothing could be done. She plans to file a police report about the incident so it is on record.
An ordinarily quiet dead end section of Greenbelt Parkway West, Erhart said something like this has never happened before.
"We’ve had things like a broken window," she said. "There’s a lot of kids hanging out at the dead end. Sometimes you get troublemakers. One of my chairs was taken off my porch and we found it later, but nothing with animal cruelty."
Erhart has been calling around different shelters and veterinarian hospitals to transport the injured feline. Erhart said the Brookhaven Animal Shelter referred her to an in-house vet, but would likely charge her for the service. However Patch spoke with an employee at the shelter who said if the kitten was injured they would consider taking him in. As of print time, Erhart was transporting the kitten to the facility on Horseblock Road.
A different employee at Brookhaven Animal Shelter said that the shelter is "jam packed" with healthy kittens and sometimes has to turn away animals due to lack of space. She also said that there is no law regarding stray animals, and therefore the shelter is under no obligation to take them in.
For Erhart, the experience was unsettling, no only for her, but for her children.
"The kids get affected by it," she said. "I’m trying to explain to them why there’s a kitten in a brown paper bag in our driveway.”
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