A soft heart and a strong backbone are traits shared by both a local animal lover and the horribly injured, young cat she is working to save.“We named him Snake for right now,” Tracy Bryant said as she tenderly stroked the fur back from the orange tabby’s mangled face. “The name came from the movie ‘Escape from New York.’ The character in the movie is really tough. And that’s what this cat is. He’s a survivor and he needed a bad-ass name to get him through this.”Snake, a domestic short-hair, was lying in a pool of blood last Monday morning on Old Wilderness Trail as Bryant made her commute to work in Berea. ...