Arrow fired through family's cat

[Iain]

A family cat is expected to survive after its body was pierced by an 18-inch aluminium arrow.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Marmite managed to make it back to his home in the Scottish Borders village of Newcastleton after being struck.

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Lucky cat.

[dogmush]

1 down, 8 to go.

[MrRezister]

Lucky cat.

Or, alternatively:

Very unlucky cat.

My cats are the lucky ones.  They sit around in the air conditioning all day without the slightest fear of being impaled by arrows.

[The Annoyed Man]

Poor little kitten. Can we use the bastard who did this for archery training?

[Manedwolf]

Poor little kitten. Can we use the bastard who did this for archery training?

I'd be good with that. Broadhead hunting arrows. The kind with the serrated blades.

I'm just glad the poor cat got back home and was able to be saved...This is why I recommend that people keep their cats indoors.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3.  

[AJ Dual]

A. I hope, presume it was a target point.

B. I also hope that arrow is not going "the long way" through the cat as that 2 dimentional x-ray suggests.  

[coppertales]

Another reason cats should not be let outside.  If someone did that to one of my cats, they would be shot dead.  My cats, who are also my kids, are indoor cats but now and then I let one of them out when I go out and keep a close eye on them.  She never gets more than 10 feet from me.  I am always armed when she is out too.....chris3

[PTK]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3. 

We ended up using a silenced .45 carbine on feral cats, before. TOUGH buggers.

[Tallpine]

Ouch!    Poor little kitty

I expect they will be banning bows 'n arrows soon in the UK 

[Iain]

A. I hope, presume it was a target point.

B. I also hope that arrow is not going "the long way" through the cat as that 2 dimentional x-ray suggests.  

Article says it entered by the right shoulder and exited by the left rear leg.

[Jamisjockey]

A. I hope, presume it was a target point.

B. I also hope that arrow is not going "the long way" through the cat as that 2 dimentional x-ray suggests.  

Article says it entered by the right shoulder and exited by the left rear leg.

Best way to Rotisseire one.....

[HankB]

Good reason not to let your pets run around loose.

[griz]

18 inch "arrow"?  Sounds like a crossbow bolt.

[Nitrogen]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3. 

We ended up using a silenced .45 carbine on feral cats, before. TOUGH buggers.

A friend of mine in austrailia has done this.  Apparently the feral cats out there are amazingly tough and mean; they are pests worse than deer out there.

[Perd Hapley]

Don't let cats outside?  When did we start letting them inside?    If you keep them in, you have to feed them and clean up after them.  You bunch of liberals.

[MicroBalrog]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3.  

Some of them deranged types over at Survival Monkey use AR15s on cats.

[2swap]

When did fistful visit the UK? 

[Perd Hapley]

Thanks for the compliment, but there's no way I could hit anything smaller than New Zealand with an arrow.   

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3. 

Some of them deranged types over at Survival Monkey use AR15s on cats.

The guy who's farm had the feral cat problem used his .223 the first day we tried to kill the beasts.  It was borderline inadequate.  He swapped his .223 out for a 12 gauge slug gun the same time I swapped out my .22 for a .30-06.

Cat's are tough little creatures.

[Bigjake]

Cats are tough little critters.  I once helped a friend take care of some feral cats on his farm.  I brought my .22 along, thinking that would be enough to handle something as small as a cat.  Nope, not even close.  After leaving 3 out of 3 wounded but very much alive, I drove home to swap out my .22 for my 1903A3.  

Some of them deranged types over at Survival Monkey use AR15s on cats.

AR15 is perfectly decent feral cat medicine.

At any rate, the HOUSEcat in question wasn't HOME, therefore it's probable that it was being a nuisance to some other property owner, and gun laws being what they are in the UK, said property owner used the next best thing.  Brits can still Pluck Yew, you know.

[Iain]

Jake - people that keep cats indoors in this country are considered the weird ones. Cats decimating bird populations, pooping in your flowerbeds and having noisy love - all part of the British land and sound scape.

Although I can see that it does have merit and would certainly have saved my childhood pet from a premature end. Then again, he was a big ginger killer and might well have gone insane.

[Perd Hapley]

A big ginger killer? 

[Iain]

Spring time was one long horror show, you'd find hatchlings everywhere - the garden, the kitchen, in the cornflakes. Mice were summarily despatched, he was too efficient to torture them preferring instead to arrange them in rows. He died after a night of rabbiting in a nearby field, cars are much tougher prey than rabbits.

[lupinus]

My cats are primarily indoor cats.  I keep them inside, occasionally one sneaks out or mom lets them out (much as I tell her not to).

Someone shoots one of my cats with an arrow they wont like where I put the thing.