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The kitten was rescued, but didn't make it out of surgery in one piece.
The veterinarian at Laurel Oaks Animal Hospital in Kingsland, now acting for the kitten, says she sees
animal abuse more often than you might imagine.
This kitten is playful and affectionate, but he has already seen how cruel a place the world can be.
Dr. Julie Clark Blount is the veterinarian treating the kitten now, "I think they were actually kicking him
or throwing him or something of that nature," said Blount, "They had damaged the whole bundle of nerves
that are up in the armpit and control the functioning of the entire leg, and it's not something that would get
better over time."
Blount says they were forced to amputate his front right leg, "It doesn't seem to bother him at all and he
runs and he plays and he loves attention and he's pretty spoiled already, and he's eating like a little pig, and
doing fabulously for us," said Blount.
Doing well, but Blount says other pets out there never survive abuse.
"He's one of the lucky one," she said.
Blount says unless abusers like him are caught and prosecuted, they could go on to bigger and worse
things.
"We with there were more strict laws to protect animals because if they're doing this to pets, then what
would then end up doing to people, or kids, or anything else later on down the road?" wonders Blount.
1. From the passage, we can infer that the kitten is probably _____.
A. a male cat
B. a female cat
C. a little boy
D. a little pig
2. From the passage, we can know that _____.
A. the kitten survived abuse
B. the kitten received an operation and recovered very well
C. the kitten's front right leg was amputated because it didn't seem to bother him at all
D. the kitten was damaged slightly
3. Which part of the kitten was damaged?
A.the armpit
B. the entire leg
C. the front right leg
D. the whole bundle of nerves
4. The underlined word "veterinarian" in the second paragraph probably means _____.
A. a scientist
B. a doctor treating animals
C. a doctor treating people
D. a lawyer
5. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _____.
A. the world is a cruel place
B. the kitten was one of the lucky ones
C. the kitten abuse is common
D. it's necessary to make laws to protect animals
