Norfolk, Va. — After somebody known as PETA’s 24-hour emergency line to report a Snapchat video displaying a teen viciously punching a cat, the group labored with native police to get him out of the abuser’s palms—and now, as a new PETA video (Video exhibits scenes of violence, please bear this in thoughts earlier than watching it) launched right this moment exhibits, he’s thriving in his new house.
Although the cat (named Oreo) will at all times carry some bodily scars from the abuse he endured—his left ear is deformed and can at all times be vulnerable to an infection—his habits has utterly reworked.
“To see him in [the Snapchat] video is simply actually onerous to see … you possibly can simply inform how completely terrified he’s,” his adopter, PETA staffer Thomas McNulty, explains within the video. “I spent quite a lot of time with him, and slowly however certainly, he was beginning to come out of his shell extra, and I believe my different rescue cats helped with that.”
“One name to PETA’s emergency hotline saved this cat from what may have been a lifetime of abuse,” says PETA Vice President Colleen O’Brien. “If you see cruelty to animals on-line, obtain the video, take a screenshot, and report it—you simply might save a sufferer’s life.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to abuse in any manner”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.