Izegem Samya Delforce of the Izegemse kattenasiel ‘t Mischief believed her eyes when a neighbor this week, a badly beaten cat brought in. The voorpootje of the animal was completely shattered by a vossenklem. The leg had to be amputated. Samya had already complaint to the police.

Wednesday night had a neighbor noticed that a cat is slowly voortsleepte in the Tinnenpotstraat, with a heavy vossenklem still stuck to his leg. “It turned out to be Fluffy, a cat here six years ago, there was brought in,” explains Samya. “It is a real buitenkat that here since his release, yet almost every day arrives. His paw was to the death. The flesh was destroyed, torn, the bone was broken, and the wound stank. The vet could not otherwise than be amputated. It is a miracle that Fluffy survived.”