It was broad daylight,” Reno said. “He came in and was howling and laid down on the kitchen floor and didn’t want anyone near him.”

The cat had a small mark on its hip, but no other external injuries.

The next day, Reno found it lying with its head at a strange angle and its tongue lolling out. She thought it was dead.

Reno took Scotchy to Cayuga Veterinary Services, where an X-ray Tuesday night revealed a charge from a pellet gun and four fractures in the cat’s back left leg.

The bones have begun to mend at an odd angle, and Reno said it will cost about $1,000 to put a plate in the leg.

This is just for FYI,some states allow hunters to shoot stray cats.

The number of threatened and endangered song birds killed by cats is unbelievable,millions of birds a day.

Some states used to allow people to whip, rape, and shoot people, on the merest of whims. There is no more a good argument for that than one for shooting cats.



Great point. I assume you're also in favor of killing hawks and eagles, snakes, foxes, bobcats, etc, etc., etc., for the same reason? And people...maybe we should kill everybody who shoots quail. Save the birds! LOLOLOL!

Your god created them all, I'm told, but I'm pretty sure he didn't appoint you as Chief of the Animal Police Dept..

I am serious in the above, but I am also that when I say that a very good argument can be made for not letting any of them wander free, for their own good, and for that of other beings. We have 138 12 cats and 3 dogs, and all of them are confined to the house and an attached 8 ft high fenced enclosure, or leashed or tethered.

No good argument can be made for shooting cats just because they're doing what cats do. Maybe for shooting their owners, sometimes...

Same thing for dogs running deer. First, there is certainly no shortage of deer; they're not going to disappear. Second, it's not the dogs' fault, but their owners'.