Cat shooting

[linedancer16]

I feel really shocked and upset tonight. I've just found out that a cat belonging to an elderly lady on her own who lives in the flats at the bottom of my crescent has been shot three times with air gun pellets and had to be put down as it was paralysed. I used to 'talk' to it regularly and it was totally unconcerned about my dog and just used to sit and watch us pass by. It was found on our crescent trying to crawl home. I live in a very quiet residential area and cant believe some one would do this. The vet said it had been shot from above probably from a window. It never seemed to wander far and it must be some one local who shot it. How can people do things like this?

[ladybirder]

That's appalling ld16, poor lady and poor cat, what an awful thing to happen. I hope the person who did it is found and shamed and punished. There are some hateful people about.

[paddywak]

I'm not a cat person but this sort of thing is terrible. The kind of person who does this to an innocent animal deserves some thing nasty being done to them

[daisya]

These people are unfeeling scum, can't believe they can do such a thing but then when they don't feel for an animal I guess it's second nature to them. Poor cat and the poor owner too, can't imagine how she must be feeling now - scum should be put down IMO.

[erin-x]

That's sick! I would be so devastated if that happened to Sooty. Makes me glad she's a house cat.

[linedancer16]

I agree that they should be punished but more than likely no-one will be found. I find it hard to believe that someone who lives very near to me is capable of this and that perhaps I even know them!

[starone]

How awful. Poor little thing. How could anyone do that to a helpless animal? Also the elderly lady must be very upset at the loss of her companion. Pity we don't let the punishment fit the crime in this country.

[erin-x]

That is horrible to think that. I can remember, years ago, there was a lot of cats dying from antifreeze poisoning in our area. One of our neighbours down the road knew our cat and came to tell us that she found a pure white cat in her garden. Thankfully it wasn't ours and we were lucky as there were a lot of deaths in the area. I can just remember how upset and angry everyone was. Really terrible. :|

[linedancer16]

The poor lady is devastated and has put up posters asking for help finding who did it. If they had just shot it once it might have survived but three times was deliberately trying to kill it.

[Caran]

Many years ago I had a much loved cat, she crawled home one day unable to use her back legs. We took her to the vets,he reckoned someone had kicked her in the stomach. Her Diaphram had been shunted up into her chest cavity,
we were faced with horrendous vet bills, we had very little money but it was a no brainer, she was my baby. The operation went well(I cried all day during it)
she recovered and lived fr many years after. I believed the man who lived in the house backing on to our garden had done it, I had witnessed him chasing Shelley (she was a (Tortie) out of his garden. He was a nutter anyway who used to object to us having a conversation in our own lounge with the window open. He used to stand at the end of his garden waving his arms and jumping up and down and shouting.
I couldn't believe the heartbreak that involves hurt to an animal.
I lost Shelley by her just disappearing, I believed (or hoped) that she had just gone away to die on her own. It took me years to really get over her going.Sorry for rambling on a bit.

[linedancer16]

Thats so sad Carandrog. Pets cause us a lot of heartache as well as giving us a lot of happiness!

[fliptheswitch]

Oh my god, that is awful.
How a human being can treat another living, breathing life in this way, is beyond me. Really, really sad :(

[NoMercy]

Poor little creature.

There's some unimaginable scum walking our streets.

[joggerjayne]

How horrid.

=0(

[NOX]

There were a spate of cat murders somewhere I lived a few years ago and everyone had an old tramp who used to live and wander around pegged as the culprit but couldn't prove it. Turned out it was a professional guy in his early 40's, real paragon of village life type. I was about to make sure he met with a nasty accident when someone beat me to it. lol.

[joggerjayne]

Tramps get a bad press.

[Captain Spod]

It's about now that 18-25 year olds have had computer games available throughout their lives. Shooting the bad guys, in fact anyone and anything, has no repercussion. Some thickies, or just neglected children are almost certain to have a deep seated feeling that it doesn't really matter what they do, it can all be reset.
This doesn't help the old girl of course, just a window on our 'whatever' society.

[maggiebee]

Hope these scum are identified and meet someone with a loaded blunderbus one night.

[Nibble]

That is awful - disgusting. Poor cat - poor lady. Small consolation, but at least she knows that happened to it (vile though it is), as it was found. It's hard when the cat just vanishes (although in some ways, it would be better not to know about scum like this). I hope it gets big press in the local newspaper, before another pet suffers a similar fate.

[NOX]

My 18-25 year old kids would NEVER dream of hurting an animal, you're either the sort of psycho who would or wouldn't imho, I don't think age or computer games matter one iota.

[boxtops]

B@stards. That's all I can say. Ha Ha Fun - I bet they gave not one jot of thought to the person who loved that cat, when they were having their "fun". I know what I'd do to them.