UPDATE:
The Facebook page of the Bridgeport Animal Rescue Crew claims kittens are being painted and used as bait in city dog fights. Betting is done on the color of the kitten who will survive the longest. The page features the images of two kittens who were rescued outside of Bridgeport. They did not specify where, but argue this goes on in the city.
From the Facebook page:
This is what can happen when kittens are given for free or in the hands of the wrong people. Each one painted a color with permanent markers and used as bait for dog fights. People bet on the color of the cat who will survive the longest. This is a true story and they were just rescued.
This is common–and yes happens so much right here in Bridgeport.
This is for public awareness and only by all of us advocating and discouraging free adoptions by ANYONE or ANY ORGANIZATION–can we make a dent in this problem. ****They rarely will pay for a cat or kitten.****
Now the hope is these kittens won’t suffer any sort of poisoning due to the markers.
PLEASE KEEP SHARING THIS POST. IT IS KITTEN SEASON, SO THESE SICK PEOPLE ARE OUT COLLECTING THEM NOW. TIME FOR EVERYONE TO EDUCATE EVERYONE ELSE.
This is as sad as it gets. Is this just plain ignorance? Are the people psychotic? That will eventually make them serial killers? Is this a cultural thing? I would love for those guilty to receive jail time and psychiatric evaluation as well as pictures posted at the post office and newspapers. This is just plain cruel!
Depraved individuals.
Dog fighting in Bridgeport? Cruel? Sad? Ignorance? Psychoses? Cultural?
1) Some adults out there know where and when fights are set up and betting on the fights is a profit motive.
2) If the Police do not know about such activity you have to ask why. If the Police know and do nothing about an activity that is illegal on multiple grounds, shame on them.
3) If promoters and owners were to be faced with having their chests painted with permanent markers before being thrown in a lion’s cage so betting could commence to see how long they would last, we might revisit some stories from scripture, and force some members of the community to get ‘religion.’
4) It is not about the kittens. They should be safe from magic markers!
Time will tell.
Lennie, I beg you to take that down.
Lisa, sometimes you have to see man’s inhumanity. The Humane Society does a great job. Unfortunately, life is not a Disney movie. Even Disney has become depraved over the years.
Lisa, taking it down doesn’t make it go away. The community needs to be informed of this type of cruelty so action can be taken.
I know, you’re both correct. I love animals so much it makes my heart hurt to see those kittens.
*** It would be nice to catch the fools who do these heartless things and strip them butt naked, cuffed and blindfolded, pour warm gravy over them and put them in the dog pit awaiting the hungry dogs without collars so they’re unable to grab. Loud heavy metal music playing, with numbers written on the fools’ backs so the animal rescue personnel can bet on who will last the longest, no? Let them hear the sound of the large pit bulls and rotties, etc. then release a pack of chihuahuas on their asses! *** PRICELESS ***
This needs to go viral to stop it. Good job, Lennie.
Although these actual pics are not from Bridgeport, we do know dog-fighting has happened and may still happen right here in Bridgeport. I have no sympathy for those humans who engage in these activities because sooner or later they will turn their pathology toward another human being. Beyond that, the pictures are heart-breaking. Human beings are the most vicious creatures that populate this earth.
The two kittens pictured here painted with colored magic markers have NOTHING to do with Bridgeport. It was a news story in England two months ago. See this link:
metro.co.uk/2016/04/26/someone-coloured-in-two-helpless-kittens-with-permanent-marker-5841970/
And even in this English article there is NO proof it had anything to do with dog fighting. The assertion by this unknown person on the Facebook page called Bridgeport Animal Rescue Crew, which has absolutely no affiliation with the Bridgeport Animal Control Dept, that this takes place in Bridgeport has absolutely no facts to back it up. Don’t jump to conclusions on a bogus Facebook post that starts to go viral without doing some fact checking. There is of course dog fighting in Bridgeport but our severely understaffed and poorly managed animal control division can do nothing anyway.