Kitten tossed from vehicle needs a home

FORT ST. JOHN — Officials in northeastern British Columbia say the sixth kitten to be thrown from a vehicle in recent weeks was saved by a construction worker who heard her mews.

The North Peace branch of the B.C. SPCA says the little black cat with a white patch on its chest would otherwise have been buried in debris.

Now named Prairie Rose, the kitten was tossed from a vehicle in a rural construction zone outside Fort St. John.

She was badly injured, with a broken pelvis and ruptured tendon that allowed all her intestines to fall into her stomach cavity.

Candace Buchamer of the SPCA’s North Peace branch said the cost of care for Prairie Rose is expected to exceed $2,000.

The kitten will be offered for adoption when she has made a full recovery and Buchamer said it appears Prairie Rose is on the mend.

“Despite the excruciating pain she’s in, her ‘instapurr’ remains intact and she loves to get all the love you’re able to give,” Buchamer said in a news release.

The SPCA and other rescue organizations are always ready to take unwanted pets, she said.

“We just want to reiterate that throwing any animal from a vehicle and leaving it to suffer, in pain, is never an acceptable solution to unwanted pets or litters.”