Somebody Apparently Threw This Cat Off The Bridge, But Luckily This Boat Captain Spotted Her
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Meet Captain Jordan Smith, a man who pulled something completely unexpected out of his fishing net last week. “I saw this little head swimming around,” he told Huffington Post. “She was swimming toward me, like, ‘Oh, human, save me!’”
See, on Thursday night, when Smith was out on the harbor in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, when he looked up and saw something falling off the Marler Bridge, “probably 15 feet off the water”… “At first I thought it was like a trash bag, with some trash in it,” he said. But the object started moving. Then he saw frightened orange eyes and realized it was a tiny cat.
Smith got into the water to pull out the feline, now named ‘Miracle’. “She latched ahold of me and didn’t want to let go,” he said. “She was just staring at me the whole time.”
According to Smith, someone must have thrown the cat off the bridge on purpose, but he didn’t see who the cruel person was.
Now the kitty is recovering at the vet’s. The doctors said she was pregnant and went through a miscarriage. Smith is planning on adopting her if the miraculous cat gets along with the captain’s dog, whom he refers to as ‘princess’.
We hope all goes well for this little lady – you are in good hands now, baby girl.
Meet Captain Jordan Smith, a man who pulled a cat thrown off bridge from his fishing net last week
Image credits: Jordan Smith
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I can't (and don't want to) believe how horrible some people are. Why on earth would you do that? There are shelters everywhere! “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”- Immanuel Kant
Sad part is many municipal pet shelters put animals down for space and or due to age, especially the owner surrendered pets. :( But still less cruel than being dumped.
Further proof that humans are the cruelest living things on this planet (and possibly beyond)
Leni you said :"have you seen a cat play with a mouse before it eats it? What, you think that's accidental or something? Or that he needs that to survive?". It is to survive that cats do that.Nature is ruled by "energetic cost" of doing something, so the cats did'nt play with mouses, but exhaust their prey in order to kill it more easyly. It cost more energy to kill a prey who is fighting for his life than killing an exhausted prey.this is why cats can kill snakes..., they don't play, they use a smart hunting technic to save their energy and have more chances to kill the prey and finally eating.This is not a game but a surviving skill that's in genes by natural selection, this is why even human feeded cats are doing it anyway.
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You really don't know much about the workings of nature if you think that.
MAN is the one that derives pleasure from pain. MAN is the only one that tortures on purpose. Nature is surviving. Yes there are a VERY few small exceptions in nature. There is absolutely no compariton. How many things in nature rape their babies? How many beat their young? On and on and on.
I sure know enough to know that humans are cruel. We're the ones torturing other human beings and living things. So how is that "workings of nature"? Workings of nature would be a human or animal killing others (animals that is) for food purposes, protection and, as it happens int he animal world and sometimes ends deadly, fight to mate.
You obviously don't. Humans are cruel, and have become even more cruel in the last 10 years-- with their hate speech toward people who are different from them. Just ask the bullies on the playground, the ones who murder other humans. The ones who kill animals for sport. The ones like this who throw animals off a bridge for no reason.
dude really?
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And an example close to home - have you seen a cat play with a mouse before it eats it? What, you think that's accidental or something? Or that he needs that to survive? Cute. But unrealistic. Yes. Some animals torture others for pleasure. Cats are not the only ones either.
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I suggest both of you look up how parasite wasps reproduce. Just a small example, I can name many, many more if needed (but I haven't had my caffeine yet and honestly I can't be arsed). Karen - lots of things in nature rape their babies. And kill their or other's young. Or eat them if the circumstances are right. Again, try to get more involved in the world you're living in. Nature isn't like disney makes it look. Nature is often what we perceive as cruel. That's where we get it from. We are part of nature. We're not majorly different from the rest of it. A little smarter and a little more empathy (yes. More. Not all of us, but on a whole). That's about it.
That cat's face, poor thing, it's so stressed out :(
:-( Yes, it looks totally traumatized. Let's hope he did only that one pic and then quickly put her in a nice warm and fluffy towel, the poor thing.
I can't (and don't want to) believe how horrible some people are. Why on earth would you do that? There are shelters everywhere! “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”- Immanuel Kant
Sad part is many municipal pet shelters put animals down for space and or due to age, especially the owner surrendered pets. :( But still less cruel than being dumped.
Further proof that humans are the cruelest living things on this planet (and possibly beyond)
Leni you said :"have you seen a cat play with a mouse before it eats it? What, you think that's accidental or something? Or that he needs that to survive?". It is to survive that cats do that.Nature is ruled by "energetic cost" of doing something, so the cats did'nt play with mouses, but exhaust their prey in order to kill it more easyly. It cost more energy to kill a prey who is fighting for his life than killing an exhausted prey.this is why cats can kill snakes..., they don't play, they use a smart hunting technic to save their energy and have more chances to kill the prey and finally eating.This is not a game but a surviving skill that's in genes by natural selection, this is why even human feeded cats are doing it anyway.
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You really don't know much about the workings of nature if you think that.
MAN is the one that derives pleasure from pain. MAN is the only one that tortures on purpose. Nature is surviving. Yes there are a VERY few small exceptions in nature. There is absolutely no compariton. How many things in nature rape their babies? How many beat their young? On and on and on.
I sure know enough to know that humans are cruel. We're the ones torturing other human beings and living things. So how is that "workings of nature"? Workings of nature would be a human or animal killing others (animals that is) for food purposes, protection and, as it happens int he animal world and sometimes ends deadly, fight to mate.
You obviously don't. Humans are cruel, and have become even more cruel in the last 10 years-- with their hate speech toward people who are different from them. Just ask the bullies on the playground, the ones who murder other humans. The ones who kill animals for sport. The ones like this who throw animals off a bridge for no reason.
dude really?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
And an example close to home - have you seen a cat play with a mouse before it eats it? What, you think that's accidental or something? Or that he needs that to survive? Cute. But unrealistic. Yes. Some animals torture others for pleasure. Cats are not the only ones either.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I suggest both of you look up how parasite wasps reproduce. Just a small example, I can name many, many more if needed (but I haven't had my caffeine yet and honestly I can't be arsed). Karen - lots of things in nature rape their babies. And kill their or other's young. Or eat them if the circumstances are right. Again, try to get more involved in the world you're living in. Nature isn't like disney makes it look. Nature is often what we perceive as cruel. That's where we get it from. We are part of nature. We're not majorly different from the rest of it. A little smarter and a little more empathy (yes. More. Not all of us, but on a whole). That's about it.
That cat's face, poor thing, it's so stressed out :(
:-( Yes, it looks totally traumatized. Let's hope he did only that one pic and then quickly put her in a nice warm and fluffy towel, the poor thing.