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Old September 4th 09, 01:20 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Glad the kitty will be ok. The human, well, no decent human would do this.


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Humane association offering reward to find person who shot cat with arrow
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Cat recovering after arrow pierces head
Humane association offering reward to find person who shot arrow
By Nicole Brooks
331-4232 |
9/1/2009

Brownie, a 4-year-old tabby, returned to his owner last week with an arrow
stuck in his head, his fur matted with dried blood.

The cat had been shot. Sarah Hayes with the Monroe County Humane
Association announced today that the organization is offering up $500 to
anyone with information that leads to the conviction of the person or
persons responsible.

"It's just horrible, and whoever did this, they need to be charged,"
Hayes, the association's CEO, said. Hayes has seen animals in terrible
condition and pain, but "This one's new," she said.

The arrow had likely been shot into Brownie's head a few days before he
came trotting back to his owner last Monday, as the wounds were already
infected, said Monroe County Sheriff's Department officer Rebecca Brown.

The incident probably happened on the far southeast side of Bloomington,
off East Stipp Road, Brown said. And Brown believes this instance of
animal cruelty was deliberate.
"Anybody hunting wouldn't have been that low to the ground," she said. The
person who did it can be charged with animal cruelty, a class B
misdemeanor, Brown said.

Brownie had surgery at Bloomington's Town and Country Vet Hospital the day
after he was found. Veterinarian Casey Shake said the arrow had entered
just above Brownie's right eye and went through the cat's skin, tissue and
some muscles. X-rays showed the arrow just skimmed Brownie's skull, Shake
said. It exited in front of Brownie's left ear.

Someone, not the cat's owner, had cut the pointed end of the arrow before
Brownie was brought to the vet. The arrow had loosened, Shake said.

"It could slide back and forth. It slid right out."
Shake anesthetized the cat and pulled the arrow out - and while he was at
it, he neutered Brownie, for free. "I figured that would take his mind off
his headache."

Shake then left the wounds open to drain, and treated them to ward off
infection.
"The next day that cat was amazing," he said. Brownie was purring, ready
to eat and drink, and wanted love. Shake said Brownie will have no brain
damage or vision loss.

"That cat should make a complete recovery," he said. "I have never seen
anything quite like that. It was definitely bizarre."

Brownie is recovering and will be reunited with his owner in a few days,
Brown said.
The cat's owner is in the hospital, recovering from a procedure on Monday,
said a caretaker who assists the man. He should be home by Friday.

The Monroe County Humane Association paid for Brownie's surgery with money
from the group's Olivia Animal Protection and Rescue Fund, Hayes said. The
fund was set up in memory of Olivia, one of several cats set on fire in
1997 by a group of teens. Olivia's vet bills cost her owners thousands of
dollars, and the cat died despite efforts to save her.

Hayes said this is the second time in three or four years the association
has offered a reward for information leading to an animal cruelty
conviction.

"As long as the funds are available to do that, we obviously want to do
that any time we can. We definitely want to charge somebody who does
something horrible like this."

A $300 reward was offered for information on Clover the goat, who in 2006
was dumped at the end of a dead-end county road to either starve or be
killed by coyotes or dogs.

The crippled goat was found with a missing left rear leg and with its
front legs frozen in a bent position.

Clover died and no one ever came forward with information about the
animal's mistreatment and abandonment.

Hayes hopes this time is different.

"A lot of people had to have noticed a cat with a full-sized arrow through
its head."

No one seems to be sure just what the arrow is made of, although sheriff's
deputies guess it is a graphite arrow.

Can you help?

Anyone with information about Brownie's wounds is asked to call Monroe
County Sheriff's Department Officer Rebecca Brown at 349-2585. The Monroe
County Humane Association is offering a $500 reward to anyone with
information that leads to the conviction of the person or persons
responsible.
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