Two people were arrested after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies found a cat with its paws bound together with electrical tape Saturday night.
Two deputies from the Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station discovered the cat, named Lilly, after investigating a suspicious car they found parked behind a closed business. The two people in the car, a 26-year-old woman and her 23-year-old boyfriend, were found in possession of narcotics.
While searching the car, officers heard Lilly meowing inside a cat carrier. Deputies then searched the vehicle when they heard a cat meowing and found a cat carrier. The cat could not move due to the tap wrapped around it’s paws.
“I mean, when I first found the cat, I was like, ‘no way,’ the cat was up on its side,” deputy Adam Halloran told ABC 7. “It was crammed in the back. I mean, I own cats, that’s not how a cat should be treated.”
Why would someone do something like this to a cat? Well…
“When I asked her, she said ‘because it had been scratching.’ Isn’t that what cats do?” Halloran said.
The man and the woman now face drug and felony animal cruelty charges.
Lilly has been turned over to the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control.
