Pet cat shot and left to die

pies4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Location: rosebud,vic,australia

Pet cat shot and left to die
By KELVIN HEALEY
20feb05

A PET cat has been shot, brutally bashed and left to die in Melbourne's east.

The cowardly attack left three-year-old Hamish so badly injured owner Tim Elliott has to feed himthrough a tube in its neck.
Sickened and devastated, Mr Elliot made a plea for tougher penalties for thugs who attack animals.

The vicious shooting came as the RSPCA prepares an advertising blitz in an effort to curb violence towards cats.

A series of television ads was filmed on Friday featuring kickboxing star Stan "The Man" Longinidis, promoting the message that it is not tough to hurt defenceless animals.

Hamish's owners thought they would have to have him put down after the savage incident two weeks ago.

Mr Elliott, 35, said he realised something was wrong when he discovered a pool of blood near his Burwood home and could not find his pet.

The cat was missing for four days, but eventually returned near death, with a smashed jaw, most of its teeth missing and other serious head injuries.

An X-ray revealed a slug-gun pellet in his jaw.

Mr Elliott, who said the attack made his wife physically ill, was left with a $2200 bill for veterinary expenses.

"You have to deal with the consequences . . . both physical and emotional," Mr Elliott said. "We were disgusted.

"The biggest thing that hurt us was that he was sitting somewhere for four days, not being able to eat, festering with infection and waiting to die."

The attack on Hamish follows a long series of attacks on cats.

Last month, a gang of youths tortured a three-month-old kitten in Shepparton.

A kitten was stoned, stomped on and ridden over at a Sydney train station, and on the same day another cat suffered burns to 30 per cent of its body after being set alight.

In September, a Persian cat was shot with a crossbow at St Andrews, while last May a group of soldiers in Townsville were fined $2000 after setting fire to three kittens and dragging another behind a motorcycle.

Earlier this month, a Croydon man was jailed for bludgeoning his pet cat to death because it meowed too much.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12307031%255E2862,00.html

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

The full force of the law should be thrown at these people...... yes it may just be cats, but obviously the people who commit these acts are so sick and sadistic they are a danger to everybody.....