cat shot with pellet gun....

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emilyjane — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:08:41 GMT

ergh, that is disgusting... I am of course a huge animal lover, but I cannot see why anyone (even those who aren't animal lovers) would do something so utterly evil.

Our practice had a call from a concerned member of the public warning us a neighbour of hers had been making threats to the other neighbours to set rat poison down if cats kept coming into her garden. Because cats understand that and all...

Worst thing is that justice dealt is not great enough in my opinion, most who are guilty of animal cruelty aren't given much of a punishment at all.

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chanel clydesdale — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:58:29 GMT

one of the biggest reasons i regretfully keep my cats indoors, i just ensure they have enough enrichment in the house to keep them entertained. too many pschos in this world :-(

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Tracey Louise — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:16:00 GMT

This makes me feel sick to the stomach!

How awful

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emmRAR — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:04:09 GMT

We've had 2 cats in the ladt couple of years with shotgun wounds, both pulled through thankfully. One had 21 pellets in his body - 15 couldn't be removed, including three in his lung! He's something of a miracle.

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hayleyw — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:09:35 GMT

This post really saddens me :( What is wrong with people that they would shoot an innocent cat, somebodys beloved pet? There's something seriously wrong with people like that!

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Sally Howe — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:23:53 GMT

I have one cat at home with at least 3 pellets in. The owner was going to have him put down as had no money and the leg needed ext. fix. I couldn't bear to see this otherwise healthy 5 year old serengeti put to sleep along with the vet...... yes I got them to sign him over to me. I paid for ex. fix that then shattered the leg further so we opted for strict strict rest with the view to amputation. We didn't need to amputate luckily and he only has a slight limp on wet days which he has metacam for. His piccies and story are on my website. None of the pellets were removed.

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NJ_VN — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:12:15 GMT

How terrrible, 2 weeks ago we had a cat referred to us after being shot in the leg and shattering its femur! It makes you sick to think people are just wandering around taking shots at cats

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Nicola Smith — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:49:35 GMT

We see a fair few too, most recent was an 8 month old, pellet had made 11 holes in his intestines - after 2 hours of surgery he pulled through aganst the odds. Makes me so cross. I just think if they are happy to shoot a cat where do they draw the line?

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Emma Purnell — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:15:44 GMT

Whats worse was the cat we had shot in the spine and killed - reported to the RSPCA who started all the investigations... then nothing. 3 years later after a lot of phoning we got the OK to send the poor cat for cremation as noone knew what was going on with it...

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:59:25 GMT

this one survived - but I hope the git that did this gets theirs, this cat lost an eye and teeth and also a leg - the backend was just as bad.

sadly I have a collection of these - it isnt unique

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Fuzzyduck — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:18:19 GMT

Unfortunately we see alot of cats shot with airgun rifles. Recently had one shot behind the ear pellet exited through the eyeball! Had to remove the eye.

Another shot in the chest, luckily pellet lodged just near to the heart! After some major chest drains and stabilisation cat survived but cannot remove the pellet.

Then last week another cat shot twice, once in the nose and once in the chest, luckily cat survived and we were able to remove both pellets.

Makes me so sad and angry that people do this to innocent pets, i hate to think what id do to someone if i caught them having shot one of mine.

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les punton — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:07:13 GMT

some people are just mean!

Least the little puss did not suffer longer than nec x

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Emma Purnell — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:07:08 GMT

Sadly, we had a cat shot in the forehead the other day, pellet had bounced off and was lodged behind the right eye. Luckily the eye calmed down, but the cat will have to live with that pellet as it is too far in to remove. Very sad.