(Story From FOX 59)
A 19-year-old turned himself in after admitting he poured gasoline on a cat before setting the feline on fire.
Noah Riley was arrested on charges of animal cruelty and neglecting an animal.
The female cat drenched in gasoline; someone had laid a firecracker on top of her. The firecracker didn’t go off.
“Her ears are shriveled. Her fur is gone down to the skin,” said Misha Anderson, director of the Animal Welfare League of Montgomery County. “She landed in a mud puddle. So I think that slowed down the fire or at least dampened her fur which caused the only flames to be gasoline so all the fur is mostly cinched.”
The organization has set up a fund to aid in the cat’s recovery. Anyone interested in donating can go here to do so. A neighbor of the firefighter who found the cat has put in a request to adopt her.
“Your words, thoughts, and prayers have helped energize our exhausted staff in this incredibly difficult time,” the group wrote on its Facebook page. “She is a fighter, and we will keep fighting for her!”
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