Topic: My brother's cat shot with air rifle (Read 7899 times)

Garfield&Gypsy · « **Reply #30 on:** February 22, 2008, 19:08:26 PM »

How disgusting! How could anyone do something like that to an animal!

coffeefilms · « **Reply #29 on:** February 22, 2008, 13:42:12 PM »

A lot of people have major issues, one day I'll catch one of them in the act...

People are sick sadly, I'm so pleased he is going to be OK though, best wishes for recuperation!

berties mum · « **Reply #28 on:** February 21, 2008, 15:01:55 PM »

hOrZa · « **Reply #27 on:** February 19, 2008, 21:57:09 PM »

Good to hear things are well

on a lighter note the human body can be made bullet proof once you get over 63 stone

oh and pun intended

berties mum · « **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2008, 21:51:54 PM »

Thanks everyone for the kind wishes for puss ... luckily, being a 6.6kg fat cat, he seems to have been protected by his considerable stature and the outlook is good now the pellet is out. I am paying him a get well visit later in the week though so will let you know!

Tiggy's Mum · « **Reply #25 on:** February 19, 2008, 21:33:40 PM »

Poor little cat, hope there's no serious damage. I find it genuinely sad that there are people out there who get pleasure from hurting another defenceless creature - makes me very angry too.

lucy · « **Reply #24 on:** February 19, 2008, 21:11:04 PM »

What evil, nasty people there are out there.

Glad your brother's cat should be OK though.

MrsR · « **Reply #23 on:** February 19, 2008, 20:03:26 PM »

OMG the evil

Seriously if you find out who they are I'll sort them out quite happily and dig out their black hearts with a spoon the little

blackcat · « **Reply #22 on:** February 19, 2008, 20:01:25 PM »

I'm inclined to agree with you Horza, in that if a person is taught to treat a gun with respect they would not be taking pot-shots at people's pets. Problem is, that they are too readily available to any idiot that wants to own one. Growing up in the country I know how to handle a gun and there are lots of circumstances where they are essential - but owning one when you live in the 'burbs is a complete nonsense and probably indicates that the person has it as a macho ornament rather than as a necessary tool for some of the grimmer aspects of rural living ...

alisonandarchie · « **Reply #21 on:** February 19, 2008, 19:57:31 PM »

You do have a point, after thinking about your post

hOrZa · « **Reply #20 on:** February 19, 2008, 19:55:18 PM »

I'm with the gun people on this, guns don't harm, people harm wether its a airgun or a fork if people want to do harm they will. Banning something doesn't end it it just sends it underground look a gun crime since they were banned

alisonandarchie · « **Reply #19 on:** February 19, 2008, 19:48:52 PM »

So sorry to hear about your brother's poor cat. It really is time to look at the whole bus. of air rifles

Christine (Blip) · « **Reply #18 on:** February 19, 2008, 19:40:47 PM »

It never fails to amaze me, the utter lack of empathy that these sc*mb*gs at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder have. I'm really glad puds is going to be OK .

Clumsiness is very under-rated, Sue

I wish I believed in karma, but I don't, except, I suppose, that people who hang out with the rotten ones tend to die by the sword they live by...

Sue P (Paddysmum) · « **Reply #17 on:** February 19, 2008, 18:53:22 PM »

This is so horrible when something like this happens. It happened to Flynn, my Lost Boy. I found a lump on his side, and when we took him to the vet, she said she was 98% certain it was an airgun pellett. She operated, and it was. I still have it. He was lucky - because he was a plumptious little lad, it had prevented any serious damage to his ribs,heart or lungs, but it had me sick with shock for a good few days.

Am glad your brother's little lad is gonna be okay, and I hope the

who did it gets their just desserts. And yeah - I agree, Karma will come good in the end.

Meanwhile -

you are a clumsy bunch, are you not?

Millys Mum · « **Reply #16 on:** February 19, 2008, 16:13:59 PM »

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And as for all the evil cretins who shoot or throw things at animals, I do hope that they get what's coming to them one day, stupid

Karma always bites ya in the butt at some point, much like the other day when people got bombed after watching dog fights, serves them right i think.

Theo the thug came round earlier so we showed him the squirty bottle and he went next door, the man came out and started flinging stones at him and pursued him round the corner, its illegal to hit a cat with a weapon of any description isnt it? I'l have to find the cat law website....

Funny thing is it probably is theo crapping on his lawn

clarenmax · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:54:18 PM »

Quote from: smudgepickles on February 19, 2008, 15:49:00 PM

Big confession time.... when we lived in our old house the neighbour hated animals and we actually caught him one day throwing half a brick at Elmore (my first cat) terrible thing happened a few weeks later a whole brick flew out of my hand and landed smack in his greenhouse and it happened again when it got repaired he had a lovely garden but never did he have a single visitor.....I wonder why!!

Gosh, such a coincidence that you're hand happened to be clumsy twice

And as for all the evil cretins who shoot or throw things at animals, I do hope that they get what's coming to them one day, stupid

berties mum · « **Reply #14 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:52:42 PM »

Funny you should mention that, smudgepickles - when I was a child, I once caught my cranky old neighbour throwing a stone at our gorgeous ginger cat Rusty (RIP), who had wandered into their garden to investigate their prize roses. Imagine the neighbour's surprise at finding said roses uprooted and lying in rows on their lawn when they arrived home from shopping later

My parents defended me vehemently, certain I would never have done such a thing

I admitted my crime to them when I was about 25 ... they laughed

smudgepickles · « **Reply #13 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:49:00 PM »

They are such

arent they..... put them all in a room with marksman pointing guns at them but dont let them know which are fake guns.........then give them one right in the butt as they are leaving.........hope your brothers cat makes a full recovery

Big confession time.... when we lived in our old house the neighbour hated animals and we actually caught him one day throwing half a brick at Elmore (my first cat) terrible thing happened a few weeks later a whole brick flew out of my hand and landed smack in his greenhouse

and it happened again when it got repaired

he had a lovely garden but never did he have a single visitor.....I wonder why!!

Dont know why my Mum brought me up to be posh it all went to bits the day someone messed with my animals

xx

berties mum · « **Reply #12 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:39:42 PM »

I wondered too, BC ....

blackcat · « **Reply #11 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:38:36 PM »

any keen gardeners - the sort that measure the spaces between each plant with a ruler?

berties mum · « **Reply #10 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:36:33 PM »

My poor brother didn't realise what had happened at first - he rang me and said it looked as though there was a hole in the cat's leg, so I told him to call the emergency vet, who confirmed there was a pellet lodged in there. He's baffled - he's lived in that house for 15 months and says he's never seen anyone messing about with guns.

pandapaws · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:35:55 PM »

That's just disgusting behaviour. Some people have no hearts, or brains.

Dawn F · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:32:18 PM »

how horrible - i wish they would tighten up on air rifles

berties mum · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:30:40 PM »

Dolcetta!

berties mum · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:30:04 PM »

Not sure, MM - puss has access to the outdoors all day, and was fine when my bro left for work at 8am - but when my brother got home at 8pm, after going to football practice straight from work, it had happened - but even if it did happen after dark it would have been sometime between 5pm and 8pm, so hardly the dead of night. It's not the nicest area but not rough either, which is always worrying as I start to think about my own cats ...

dolcetta46 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:28:58 PM »

Someone needs to sort out that

in a just fashion...

Hope the poor boy will heal soon, my positive vibes are flowing his way.

blackcat · « **Reply #4 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:28:19 PM »

that's the problem with kids being given guns, any sort of gun. They aim for anything that moves, and I suspect in your area have probably never been taught to use it safely either ...

A friend of mine shot his sister in the eye with an air=rifle. She lost the eye, but luckily it missed any vital brain bits ...

tigerbaby · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:26:16 PM »

That is terrible, I really hope kitty will be o.k, must be very traumatising for the little soul. Arghh people are so mean, who would do such thing?? It really saddens me.
Sending healing thoughts your way.

Millys Mum · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:26:05 PM »

Glad the poor chap is going to be ok.
Did it happen when it was dark?

berties mum · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2008, 15:14:14 PM »

Just to clarify - he's going to be fine, according to the vet - but yes, some

shot my brother's cat with an air gun on Thursday and he's had a large pellet removed from the part where his leg joins his body - i.e. probably not far from major organs. Very upsetting for my brother - he lost his other two cats in RTAs last year and is going through a divorce at the moment so relies on his cat for companionship a lot. He's a gorgeous cat (ginger and stripey and two years old) and I can't believe anyone would do such a thing

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