Kittens used as bait

LAKE WORTH-- You can barely hear it's meow and that's understandable.

A 4-week-old dark brown kitten and his white and silver-haired litter mate are downright tired after struggling to stay alive.

"They found them all bound up and they were near death," says Inga Hanley of Adopt A Cat Foundation.

A couple found the kittens on a boat in a Lake Worth storage yard Sunday.

The kittens were tied together with fishing line, their little front paws so tightly wound, they are now 3 times the size they are supposed to be.

"We still don't know if their front leg will be amputated. Time will tell," said Hanley.

Hanley is giving the kittens anti-biotic and vitamins in hopes that they will recuperate enough to fight off the infection on their paws.

She says kittens used as fish bait is nothing new and it gets worse.

"They use then for gator bait too. There are a lot of things people do with little kittens, that's why they always tell you don't advertise free kittens in the paper beaus a lot of horrible things happen to them," she said.

She's seen a lot of horrible things in 25 years of doing rescues, "It shocks me every time because you think people couldn't do such a thing, but it doesn't surprise me," she said.

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