Badly wounded and with an arrow in her body, “Lilli” dragged herself to a shelter in Lower Austria. Although the survival of the velvet paw is uncertain, there is still no trace of the culprit.
“I heard her crying and thought she was locked in the house next door,” Brigitte Muchar from Schrattenberg in the Mistelbach district recalls the heartbreaking sounds she heard after a short weekend away in the garden. But when the neighbor finally came home a few hours later, he didn’t see the velvet paw.
But the pathetic meowing remained. So the two looked together and couldn’t believe their eyes when they finally found “Lilli” in the freely accessible attic. She lay there with an arrow in her body. A race for the life of the eight-year-old cat began.
through the abdominal wall
Muchar immediately drove to the vet, where her pet cat had to undergo emergency surgery. Even days later, “Lilli” isn’t out of the woods. “The shot went through the abdominal wall. Fortunately, no organs were hit. But there may still be problems with the bladder,” says the cat owner.
‘Cats keep disappearing’
In addition to worrying about her darling, the search for the shooter begins. Because there is currently no trace of that. At most, there are corresponding shooting clubs in neighboring towns, and bows or crossbows can also be bought in Austria from the age of 18 without any problems.
In addition, a four-legged friend of the Weinviertlerin was shot two years ago. At the time, however, with a gun. “Unfortunately, cats have always disappeared from us in the past,” Muchar cannot rule out that an animal hater is up to mischief. In any case, a report has been made to the police and further investigations are underway
Source: Krone
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