Cat loses leg after being found with buckshot wound in Ontario [Video]

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An orange tabby cat named Marmalade was in good spirits on Wednesday, a day after having surgery to remove a leg found to have been shot recently.

The feline, who is believed to be close to two years old, had been living among a colony of cats in a rural area between Puslinch and Cambridge, Ont., where he was recently captured.

“He had been being fed at that colony that we’ve been looking after for a few years, for quite a few months,” said Cailey Seymour, who is the founder of Dorset Rescue Kittens, a non-profit that looks to find new homes for vulnerable animals.

She said her organization will capture the cats before they conduct health checks and have them spayed or neutered. The felines’ personalities are assessed and then the non-profit determines whether they are …