Malala: Cat with severed tail ‘was tossed like trash’

The BC SPCA is looking for information after a cat was discarded at a dump in Cranbrook.

The black cat named Malala had her legs tied together, bleeding, her tail severed and extremely dehydrated and emaciated.

“She was bleeding a lot from her tail, which had been cut off, and she had several open wounds on her feet, legs and head,” said BC SPCA East Kootenay Branch manager Brenna Baker. “It horrifies me to think that someone might do something like this to any animal, then leave her at the dump, suffering and in pain, tossed away like so much trash.”

Vets worked quickly to clean Malala’s wounds; they performed surgery on her tail, and gave her plenty of fluids. Thankfully she is now recovering from the horrifying ordeal at the shelter.

“She is such a sweet pea and so full of love,” Baker says. “She’s got a long road to recovery, but we’re grateful to the man who spotted her at the Elko transfer station and wasted no time getting her to us.”

The cost for her medical care is expected to be around $1,200 and the BC SPCA hopes the public will help with donations. Anyone who can help Malala is asked to donate online or in person at 3339 Highway 3 and 95 in Cranbrook.

Anyone with information about how Malala came to be discarded at the dump is asked to call the BC SPCA cruelty hotline, at 1-855-622-7722.

Interested in helping injured animals like Malala? Donations to injured animals at the BC SPCA can be made at spca.bc.ca/medicalemergency.

Agencies/Canadajournal