Devastated cat tries to revive her kittens after they were brutally attacked.

Warning: this post contains images that some people may find distressing.

Truly heartbreaking images of a mother cat by the side of her dying kittens have emerged from China.

Daily Mail reports that the cat was seen mourning her lost babies after they were brutally stabbed. One little kitten was even decapitated in what another news source describes as an “idiotic” attack.

The cat was first found by a woman in the city of Xi’an, Mrs Yang, who has reportedly been providing food and shelter to the homeless animals for a number of years. Mrs Yang has watched the kittens grow from before they could even open their eyes.

On the day she found the cat with her kittens, she had seen them just five hours earlier, when she placed a box out for them. When Mrs Yang returned, she found the mother cat apparently distraught, relentlessly meowing and refusing to leave her young.

Mrs Yang has tried to pursue the attacks with the police, but apparently they refuse to find the perpetrator.

Despite the mother cat’s evident heartbreak, Mrs Yang buried the cats in a nearby small grave.

If this makes you want to save a little animal, why not look at rescuing a pet?

All images via CEN.

If you have witnessed animal cruelty, then you should contact the RSPCA as soon as possible.