Posted on 08/25/2009 8:52:18 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hit with .22-caliber bullet
SARANAC, Mich. (WOOD) - A Saranac woman thought her cat had been hit by a car Friday afternoon but was surprised to learn he had been shot.
The cat's owner, Ann Laney, said as her cat was crossing the street near her home on Peck Lake Road, a car swerved. When she noticed he was bleeding, she assumed he had been hit by that car.
"The vet called me a couple hours later and told me it was shot in the mouth by a .22," Laney said.
The cat is lucky to have survived, said veterinarian Bruce Langlois, who added he is amazed by what the bullet didn't hit.
"It missed the vertebrae," he said. "It missed the esophagus. It missed the trachea. It missed the coratid. It missed the jugular."
The Ionia County Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident, but no one has been charged, Laney told 24 Hour News 8.
"I would've never dreamed that somebody would do that to my cat," she said.
The cat, Garfield, underwent surgery Saturday morning. It's possible he could make a full recovery, Langlois said.
Laney regularly allows her cats to go outside unattended, she said.
"I live in the country. You should be able to have your animals go in and out," she said. "It won't happen again. They're staying inside from now on."
spellcheck - carotid
If the cat had made it to the local “Humane Society” shelter without a tag, it would have been killed on purpose.
“They’re staying inside from now on.”
Good luck with that.....
Make that PETA - there was a story where PETA placed like 7 animals and killed over 2,000.
Unless the shelter is a “no-kill” (pretty rare, still), then the animals become food for worms at their whim.
Drive by?
He’s still got 8 more lives....
A year ago I was presented with a cat that had been shot with a broadhead that entered the side of the jaw and exited the other side. The broadhead cut a clean entry between the caudal maxillae and mandible, sliced the tongue about halfway, and exited the anatomically same location the other side. The hard palate was only sliced superficially and required 5-0 silk to suture. It took about an hour to resuture all of the injuries but IMO this was one lucky cat.
I volunteer at a no-kill shelter. Mainly for cats but there’s a dog or two plus many farm animals and a llama or two ....
I can fully understand “no-kill” shelters. These are consistent with the laws prohibiting slaughter of cats, dogs, etc. even if I disagree with such laws.
However, the vast majority of “shelters” are “kill shelters.” Somehow idiots at these places are encouraged to slaughter animals that the rest of us are arrested for simply for putting them harmlessly in one’s car trunk.
That is a double-standard that should not exist.
Or yell out “Llarry, The LLand LLord Is Here” (Llamas at home).
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