Disturbing pic of cat on forums website

[Karen]

All you can do is contact the site administrator, anything else will just call more attention and get them more traffic.

[steel]

All you can do is contact the site administrator, anything else will just call more attention and get them more traffic.

Have you seen the photo ? Im not sure if the cat is even alive.I want to find out where the pic originated from.The kid in the photo is a minor.Theirs alot of sick creeps in this world.

[Catty1]

a. Let the cops or animal authorities know. They can trace the source of the pic.

b. Notify the news media! (That'll get action from the forum).

c. Let PETA know.

A few options.

[happylabs]

That is very WRONG and upsetting. I agree with Catty1. Where are the parents of this kid?!?

[steel]

REST EASY.....a friend did some research.The kitty was being prepped for surgery...

http://www.chipsquinn.org/news/photo/photo_catvac.htm

As odd as it looks that is normal procedure... the loose hairs need to be removed so they don't contaminate the surgical site. And the ties are necessary to keep the cat from moving during the procedure. (and they DO move even under full anesthetic!)

[Nomilynn]

What's weird though is the cat should have a breathing tube and be hooked up to oxygen and the actual anesthetic. Also, you wouldn't tie down until the cat was actually ready in the surgical suite, and using a dustbuster at that point is completely unsterile.. because even if they clean the cat at that point, I don't think you would take a dustbuster into the surgery suite. When I worked at a clinic we also used a vacuum to clean up the excess hair, but we did it outside the OR and once the area was prepped the animal was brought into the OR and then treated from that point on only by those who had scrubbed in.

But yes, it's normal that the cat would be tied down like that for a surgery.

[Twisterdog]

REST EASY.....a friend did some research.The kitty was being prepped for surgery...

http://www.chipsquinn.org/news/photo/photo_catvac.htm

As odd as it looks that is normal procedure... the loose hairs need to be removed so they don't contaminate the surgical site. And the ties are necessary to keep the cat from moving during the procedure. (and they DO move even under full anesthetic!)

Even if cats are tied for surgery, which I have no doubt is true ... nothing else makes sense.

I have a really hard time believing a vet uses a dustbuster in the operating room. I'm obviously not a vet, so I could be wrong, but I really don't see a surgeon using a dustbuster!

The setting of this photo is not a sterile operating room, a veterinarian's clinic. I see nothing that makes me think this cat is anywhere NEAR a vet's office. And, going out on a limb again here, but I don't think vet techs are suddenly twelve year old boys in street clothes with dustbusters.

Come on!

[Karen]

"La Shinda Clark, photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer and 1995 Scholar, won third place for feature photos in the National Press Photographers Association 2003 Best of Photojournalism contest. In the photo, volunteer Cameron Tarzwell, 13, cleans loose hair that has been shaved from an anesthetized cat, Princess, in preparation for an operation. Tarzwell has been assisting a veterinarian for four years. The photo was one in a picture story on a spaying and neutering program in Chester County in Pennsylvania."

is the text linked with the photo.

surely we have Pet Talkers there who could verify? Though it was taken 6 years ago ...