You can save a kitten like Petrie!
Your caring gift will provide a rescue animal with the love, care and treatment they need this Christmas. Thank you.
Your caring gift will provide a rescue animal with the love, care and treatment they need this Christmas. Thank you.
You can save a kitten like Petrie!
Please help a rescue animal like Petrie heal, recover and thrive this Christmas.
When Petrie first arrived at SPCA, he was covered from whiskers to toe beans in thick, toxic road tar.
Unable to walk properly, this tiny kitten was dragging his back legs behind him – along with a pile of sticks and grass that had become stuck to the tar.
Petrie needed help. FAST.
And because kind and generous SPCA supporters like you, the SPCA team were able to act immediately on Petrie’s behalf.
Petrie was rushed into the emergency department, where he had a full medical check. Our vet knew we had to get rid of the toxic, tacky tar as quickly as possible.
But even though Petrie was frighteningly weak, he did NOT want a bath. He struggled and cried, and became more and more stressed.
So the team sedated Petrie to spare him this frightening experience. And alternating between vegetable oil, detergent and water the SPCA team tried to tease the tar out of his fur… but it wouldn’t shift. In the end, they had to shave off the tar-matted fur, and scrub his now-fuzzy skin clean too.
Underneath all that tar, fur and twigs, there was a very weak and skinny little kitten.
Thanks to our generous supporters, the SPCA Vet gave Petrie some activated charcoal to protect his stomach from any tar he might’ve ingested, and we’re hoping that Petrie will now heal from his traumatic experience, gain weight and soak up lots of snuggles and love.
And when he is strong enough, Petrie can go up for adoption, and become a valued family member in a forever home.
Everything we do at SPCA for the animals is only possible because of people like you.
In these warmer months, we really need your support. Thousands of kittens like Petrie are being born, and are in urgent need of care.
Please, will you make a Christmas gift today to provide a rescue kitten like Petrie with the care, love and attention that every animal deserves?