Police are hunting cruel yobs who blinded Baz the cat in a brutal attack - because he looks like Hitler.



The seven-year-old moggy, from Tredworth, Glos, has a distinctive patch of black hair under his nose like the Nazi leader.



Owner Kirsty Sparrow fears her timid tomcat was targeted by cruel youths because of his unfortunate likeness.



Baz - who also has dark hair on the top of his head - failed to return home after a weekend on the prowl near his home.





A neighbour found him days later, dumped in a bin and clinging to life with severe injuries.



Horrified Kirsty, 26, took him to a vet for emergency treatment and his left eye was removed because it was so badly damaged.



Kirsty - who has been left with a £600 care bill - said: 'A lot of people say he looks like Hitler but he is so timid and gentle.



'I couldn't believe the state of him. His eye was all swollen, it was like a marble.



'They said he was unlikely to have been hit by a car as there were no other injuries, and that he was probably kicked.



'I took a call at work from the vet to say he had been found in a bin, but was in a bad way. He'd been there for a while.



'It's shocking someone would do something like that.'



Kirsty, who has just left her Tesco job to go on maternity leave, added: 'I put a photo on Facebook of Baz as he has a distinctive black mark under his nose and asked if anyone saw him to contact me.'





















































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