Cat rescued by Sunderland RSPCA after getting paw caught in spring trap

A cat had to be rescued by RSPCA officers after being caught in a brutal spring trap.

The young male feline had climbed onto a fence at an allotment in Houghtonwith the metal device hanging off his right paw.

It then became lodged in the branch of a conifer tree leaving him unable to move. 

People in nearby Hunter Street, which is near the allotments, heard his cries of distress and alerted the RSPCA. 

The charity’s inspectors, Rachael Hurst and Rowena Proctor, arrived on the scene to find the cat howling in pain and desperately trying to free the trap from his right paw which had swollen to more than twice the normal size.  

Because of his highly agitated state, he was caught with a grasper and then rushed for urgent veterinary treatment at Wrights’ Vets in Birtley, where the trap was removed.