Authorities say they are now looking for the right family to adopt the one-year-old sphynx cat, which is not for sale.
A sphynx cat, which is about one year old and does not yet have a name, is up for adoption after being rescued from the Cereso 3 prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, during a police raid.The cat is believed to have suffered mistreatment at the hands of a criminal gang while in the prison.
It has tattoos on both sides of its furless body, including the phrase "Made in Mexico" — commonly used by a street gang allied withAuthorities say they are now looking for the right family to take the cat, which has spent weeks recovering with care workers and is not for sale, into their home."The cat is very sociable and is in great shape, with no infections," said Cesar Rene Diaz, Ciudad Juárez's ecology director.
A committee of city authorities will make the final decision about the adoption before presenting the cat to its new family in a ceremony on March 1.
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