Do Dog Fighters Use Cats As Bait

Cats with regal paws aren't making a fashion statement and oasis't accidentally gotten into some regal markers or pigment.

The hue on their paws and white patches of fur ways they've been color-coded equally bait in dogfighting — and they need to exist rescued immediately.

It's not just the color majestic, either. When a cat is held as bait in a dogfighting ring, the white parts of its fur could be any vibrant color: orange, purple, light-green. The color serves as an identification for each individual cat, so that information technology'south easier for spectators to place bets on the order that the cats will dice.

Information technology'due south sickening that anyone could find entertainment in the torture and killing of innocent animals.

One cat with purple paws was able to survive and escape his brutal captors, and was rescued by Clewiston Brute Control in Florida. He was dubbed Mr. Purple Paws.

Clewiston Brute Command transferred him to Naples Cat Alliance that night.

Megan Sorbara, i of the founders of Naples True cat Brotherhood, knew the reason behind Mr. Purple Paw's name was sinister the minute she saw him: that splash of colour on the white parts of his fur meant he had been marked in a dog-fighting ring. And somehow, miraculously, he was able to escape.

"Dog fighters employ markers to colour the white parts of cats and kittens and then they tin can bet on which color will die first," she wrote on Facebook. "They are "color-coded" then thrown to packs of dogs, while these sick barbarians place their bets. This is cruelty at its worst. Information technology seems equally Mr. Purple Paws was able to escape before he entered the band."

Thankfully, Mr. Purple Paws seemed to be in expert health. He was friendly and sweetness with the staff also.

"I consider myself pretty hardened to a lot of stuff, I have dealt with a lot of injured, emaciated, neglected and driveling animals," Sorbara wrote on Facebook, "just this one really got to me. Past all accounts he looks skillful, adept weight, nice glaze just the majestic paws tell the story."

How he managed to escape is a mystery.

"Somebody must take left a door open, or peradventure he got away during send while they're going wherever they go to have these fights in the middle of the dark," Sorbara told The Dullard.

Luckily he was found by beast command before his captors could snatch him dorsum.

"I can only hope more than were able to get away," Sorbara wrote, "only my real hope is that the perpetrators of this heinous 'sport' be establish and prosecuted."

Despite the management his life may have turned, Mr. Purple Paws is sweet, playful, gentle, and friendly. He likes giving head boops.

"He'southward just so sweet, rolling over on his dorsum and giving head butts — only adorable," Sorbara told The Dullard. "He doesn't accept a care in the world. He's Mr. Happy. He was playing with toys in his cage concluding nighttime. You tin can just selection him up, carry him around on your shoulder — he likes to be held."

People reacted strongly to the mail on social media.

"Anyone involved with any kind of animal fighting needs to be locked upward for the remainder of their lives," 1 user wrote. "They enjoy the claret-sport of watching animals in pain and suffering and being absolutely terrified and struggling for their lives. How dare they hurt these poor innocent animals! This is sick, barbarian, and brutal."

A good bath allowed some of the colour to fade from the rescued feline's paws, but the imperial was all the same visible a calendar week later when he was (happily!) adopted.