Community | August 29, 2008 | 6 comments

Cat Survives Crossbow Arrow Through the Back

source: http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/1.230936

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MARMITE the cat is lucky to be alive after being shot through the back with a crossbow.

Horrified owner Mark Richardson found him lying in a dog basket in his kitchen.

Marmite had crawled home to safety through the cat flap with a foot-long arrow sticking out of his shoulder.

Mark, of Oliver Place in Newcastleton, said: “It was a bit of a fright when I saw him. As soon as he saw me he started howling.”

Mark took Marmite straight to the Capon Tree surgery in Longtown where vets were almost in tears at the sight of the wounded animal.

X-rays revealed the arrow had narrowly missed his spine.

Its shaft was imprinted with teeth marks where Marmite had tried to pull it out himself.

Emma McManus performed the surgery to remove the arrow.

She said if Marmite had gone without treatment for another couple of hours she would not have been able to save him.

“He was obviously in a lot of pain, he was flat out and very distressed.

“He’s probably been quite lucky, if it had been a couple of centimetres lower I don’t think he would still be with us.”

Colleague Jane Orr added: “There were four of us working and all of us had the same reaction – that it’s just horrendous that someone could do something like that to an animal.

“We were nearly in tears, it is just disgusting.”

It is thought that Marmite was shot sometime on Tuesday as sightings of a cat with an arrow in its back were reported around the village.

Mark believes the culprit will be fairly easy to catch.

“It’s a small village – someone will know who’s got a crossbow.”

Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident and are keen to hear from anybody with information about the ownership of any weapon that could have caused the injury.
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6 comments // Cat Survives Crossbow Arrow Through the Back

  • julianfstr
  • Lesley_R
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      Lesley_R  

    • Hi Im Marmites mum Id just like to say thankyou 2 everyone who is concerned for him there are some good people out there after all. Marmites doing ok still a bit wobbly on his feet he needs another op today so hopefully we'l know more later

    • 3 years ago
  • LindseyIndigo
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      LindseyIndigo  

    • Poor little cat! You don't have to be a crazy cat lady to understand that this is horrible (though if you are a crazy cat lady it's even more profound, believe me). I just don't get how people can do stuff like this and still sleep at night. Hopefully the culprit is suffering gut-wrenching, sleep-depriving pangs of guilt and remose - in which case, maybe they should just be looking for the really, really tired-looking person in that village?

    • 3 years ago
  • Owwmykneecap
  • bamboobanga007
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      bamboobanga007  

    • omg, WHAT? It's a cat, what the hell is the purpose of shooting it with a fucking arrow? When they find the idiot they need to shove one of their arrows up his/her ass.

    • 3 years ago
  • julianfstr
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