Cat shot in the leg with BB gun
Falls Township, PA (US)Incident Date: Saturday, Nov 24, 2007
County: Bucks
Disposition: Open
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A distraught Bucks County family is trying to nurse their wounded cat back to health as authorities search for the person who shot her.
Harley is recovering after being shot in the leg by a high-powered BB Gun. The bullet and a pellet are still lodged in the two-year-old's leg.
"Very cruel and very inconsiderate, they wouldn't want it done to them, they really shouldn't do it to anyone else, especially an animal," Harley's owner Roxanne Smith said.
Harley, normally an indoor cat, somehow got out and Smith does not know who shot the cat but speculates it could be someone wanting to get the cat out of their yard.
"Why, why they didn't just come and ask me, 'please get your cat out of my yard,'" Smith said.
Harley spent a week in the vet hospital and is confined to a crate so that she does not reinjure herself.
"It took about four and a half hours to rebuild the cat's leg and we are very very hopeful today that she'll walk again," Cindie Kura of the Hidden Valley Veterinary Hospital said.
The Bucks County SPCA is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting.
"You wonder what gets into people's minds to do something to such a wonderful, sweet kitten," Kura said. References« PA State Animal Cruelty Map
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