A VERY good reason to keep cats indoors :-(
http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/...38/detail.html
Indiana Cat Survives Being Shot In Head With Arrow
Police Don't Know Who Shot Animal
POSTED: 9:12 am EDT October 27, 2004
UPDATED: 5:24 pm EDT October 28, 2004
BEDFORD, Ind. -- A 2-year-old tabby cat is recovering at its owner's home after being shot in the head with an arrow last week, the owner said.
The cat, Lama, had been let outside with Diane Acton's other cats on the evening of Oct. 19. The next morning, Acton's daughter found Lama with an arrow through its head on their front porch.
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Acton said she took the cat to a veterinarian's office, where the arrow was taken out. Vets said the arrow didn't pierce anything vital, and the cat apparently didn't suffer brain damage, Indianapolis television station WRTV reported.
"(Lama) is doing really well," Acton said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "She's eating. She's up and around."
Acton said Lama suffered a concussion, and that a vet told her it was impossible to tell now whether the cat would suffer long-term effects from the injury.
Acton called police after finding the cat injured. Police do not know who shot the arrow, WRTV reported.
A vet told Acton that after looking at the way the arrow entered cat's head, he was sure the shot was deliberate, Acton said.
Acton said this wasn't the first time one of her cats had been attacked. She said that in September 2003, someone's pit bull attacked one of Acton's cats outside the home, killing it.
She called police after that incident, but no one was cited.
GRRRRRRR..love the next to last paragraph! That should have ended this woman's insistance on letting her cats out! :mad: :( :mad:
