{"id":267308,"date":"2026-05-11T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:29:08","slug":"cat-doused-with-chemicals-recovering-at-animal-hospital-after-being-found-by-good-samaritan-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267308\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat doused with chemicals recovering at animal hospital after being found by good Samaritan &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A small cat is now on the road to recovery after being found badly burned in Miami by a good Samaritan. <\/p>\n<p>Veterinarians say the feline is an apparent victim of a very cruel crime: being doused with chemicals. <\/p>\n<p>The orange cat, now named \u201cTray\u201d was found by Christina Dickson in Miami this past weekend with open wounds on its body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was hard. It was very emotionally tolling, just very disturbing. Who could do this?\u201d said Dickson. <\/p>\n<p>Medical staff at Yao Animal Hospital where Tray is now being treated said he was scared when he first arrived to the vet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came in very scared, he was very terrified,\u201d said a staff member. <\/p>\n<p>But Tray isn\u2019t the first cat to be doused with chemicals and left to suffer. 7News covered a <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/my-heart-dropped-2-stray-cats-recovering-after-suffering-chemical-burns-in-north-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">previous story of two cats in April<\/a> who were also found by Dickson with chemical burns by a good Samaritan. <\/p>\n<p>At that time, Anna Zilberberg, a staff member at Yao Animal Hospital, said <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/vet-tech-treating-2-cats-found-with-chemical-burns-in-little-river-believes-they-were-intentionally-hurt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">she believed they were intentionally hurt.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like somebody might have lured them in, tried to feed them and then intentionally threw something on them,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Since those two cats\u2019 recovery, Dickson has given them the care and attention they\u2019ve needed. Now, she hopes authorities find the person behind this heartless crime. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope whoever did this, despite it all, I wish them well. I hope they can figure out what would make them do something like this,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Doctors said the cat is expected to recover but the search for the person behind the attack continues. <\/p>\n<p>A police report was filed in hopes of identifying the responsible party.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A small cat is now on the road to recovery after being found badly burned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-267308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}