Sonagi's story....

By the way, I don't think I've mentioned yet where Sonagi came from... here's the story, as told by her saviour, Monique:

...last week I heard this tiny little kitten meowing. It was so sad and pitiful, so young it shouldn't have been away from its mother, and tied up to a leash under a bench in the great outdoors - in the rain and cold weather recently it must have been horrible for the poor thing. It had no food and no water. I bought it some food from E-Mart for the kitten and it ate it all up because it was clearly starving.
...We feared somebody was going to hurt it, as in Korea cats are quite often seen as a cure for arthritis - and it was being mistreated as it was.
Today when we went to get it, it was quite dirty and so weak that it could barely lift its head. My boyfriend held an umbrella up to hide our faces from the nearby security cameras, I cut the leash with some scissors, and shoved the kitten in a shopping bag. Back to the apartment we went.
Upon returning, the kitten headed straight for the bowl of water we put out for it, then the food. My boyfriend cut off the elastic band on the kitten's tail - this was put there so that the tail would fall off. The tail is actually limp, the end of it is dead now, and will probably fall off sometime in the near future.

Oh, and for more on the state of animals in Korea, including an anti-dogmeat petition, please please please visit the KAPS website.