Don’t throw the kittens away with the litter!
On Tuesday, a good Samaritan was lucky enough to encounter three tiny kittens in a box leaning against a garbage can covered with trash and trash in the North Beach neighborhood of the Isle of Normandy.
The kittens believed to be European Shorthair have been taken to the nearby Pets & Vets veterinary clinic. Nobody knows how long they stayed there.
“There’s no need for people to do this,” Ruth Prado, who works for the clinic, told the New Times. “And in that case, chances are that whoever brought the kittens will leave the mother untreated, and in a few months she will have more.”
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Prado helped take care of the cats and reports that they are fine and healthy.
The white and gray one the staff called Quesadilla was adopted; the two tabbies Burrito and Taco are promoted until they are finally adopted.
Prado serves on the Animal Control Advisory Board for North Bay Village and volunteers her time catching feral and stray cats, then vaccinating and neutering them before returning them to the outdoors. It’s part of a Miami-Dade County program known as the Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return, or TNVR.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, many neutering and neutering clinics had to shut down, and as a result, cat populations rose, escalating tensions between residents and strays.
This is at least the second incident in less than a month in which Miami Beach kittens have been the obvious targets of violent crime or willful neglect.
Three weeks ago, a kitten was found dead on 15th Street and Euclid Avenue near a communal feeding area. On the calico there was an ominous note: “FEEDING THE CATS IS FORBIDDEN IN THIS PROPERTY !!! CAMERAS WILL ALWAYS RECORD! THIS IS A PRIVATE PROPERTY. DO NOT FEED THE CATS !!! ”
In Florida, an animal cruelty conviction can be punished with a fine of up to $ 10,000 and five years in prison, depending on the circumstances.
Prado thought of the unfortunate kitten in South Beach and what could have happened if someone hadn’t spotted the burrito, taco, and quesadilla in time.
“Another animal could have come in and [harmed] or a garbage truck wouldn’t have noticed them and they would have been killed, “she says.” I just want people to be aware of the cruelty. There are other options than throwing them in the trash. You could have brought them to the Humane Society or posted them around. ”
“My opinion about it?” Prado adds. “Today it’s an animal – tomorrow it could be a human.”
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