'He might be blue because people who train dogs for dog fights might have taken him to use for bait and they stain them blue,' one viewer fearfully wrote.
Set to the CMD Project song, Randall claims"Smurf came into the shelter looking like this." Additional clips show Smurf's patchy blue and purple coloring, with some of his natural ginger fur peeking through.
"He didn't have any injuries, so it's not like I can say definitively that he was [abused]," said Megan Sorbara, president of the Naples Cat Alliance in Florida. Smurf the blue cat has captured the heart of over 4 million viewers on TikTok, many of whom were concerned that he had previously been used for dog fighting bait based on the coloring of his fur., cats with dyed fur often mean than they are used to bait dogs in illegal fighting circuit.
"I learned about it...a few years ago. There were two kittens that...had magic marker on them. One was green, the other was purple," she explained."That's where I first learned about it. [Dog fighters] apparently take bet on which kitten is going to die first, or which one is going to live. "He didn't have any injuries, so it's not like I can say definitively that he was [abused]," she told."Adding all the pieces together—where he was found, the dye...and the dye was actually a dye that they use for landscaping, so it wasn't like a hair dye was used."
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