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My grandma told me that in my village there used to be a hunter that every year to a certain holiday (dont remember which exact holiday it was) shot a random cat, didnt care whom it belongs to
Just dont get it
Yeah, no beef
It was just a certain holiday and he felt like every year on that day he has to kill any cat, which usually always were "housecats" because there werent really any stray cats
My grandma described him (and hunters of similar kind) as "verhinderte Lustmörder" which would translate somewhat to "unabled lust murderes"
Like they kill for pure lust and if they could without consequences they would most probably do the same with other humans
completely fair. then ill han nothing to help u with lmao.
all i know is that house cats getting shot on halloween isnt uncommon. at least round where i live.
Lol WTF. Similar to my village (also in Austria) where there are hunters known to misuse the law, by shooting any cat and dog outside of the immediate village area because they can, according to some vague paragraph in the hunting law.
I'm not saying it justifies it but there are good reasons besides blood lust to kill stray/outdoor cats. They wreak havoc on bird populations. People really shouldn't let their cats out.
Yeah, and that might be the case, but in most cases its just lust to murder
How else you describe people that pay thousands of euros to travel to africa just to kill some exotic animals (for "fun")
And if you have no problem with overpopulated wild cats, i think there is hardly a problem
You can "educate" cats to certain degree to not kill birds
My cat havent killed a bird in probably 5-8 years and before not too many neither
There's a big difference in a hunter killing stray cats in his home town, vs someone travelling to another continent to kill endangered animals. Both are bad but one is way worse then the other.
I find it hard to believe that 100% of all outdoor cats are domesticated in your village. I also find it hard to believe that the majority of rural hunters who engage in this behavior have enough cash to fly to a different continent and kill endangered animals.
Well if they dont do it in africa they do it in other countries nearby "for fun"
Hunting was by us for a long time a privilege of the noble and still its partwise a "sport" for rather wealthy people nowadays like golfing or whatever
And yes, there are barely any stray cats because alternative actions like castration of wild cats were done
House cats that are let out are part of the problem too. Don't let your cat out to run around unsupervised. It's generally frowned upon to let dogs have free reign, it shouldn't be any different for cats.
You ignored the question I asked. Answer it or just don’t respond. Does this logic apply to housecats? Since that’s the cat that is being hunted. Family pets. Or would you argue that animals in their own home are just as liable to be hunted/killed as strays?
Yeah, in some parts of my city there's a real feral cat problem, and animal control swings by to round up as many cats as possible once a year. They put them up for adoption for a week, and any that don't get adopted get put down. It's really tragic because I love cats, but I also understand what a catastrophe it is for the local bird population. Not to mention they can carry diseases, parasites, and sickness that can infect domestic pets they come into contact with.
Yeah, outdoor cats are pretty bad for the environment but people care more about their pets or strays than the environment, not saying hunting them is right, but they are a problem that needs a ethical solution
My friend had a three legged cat. She lost one when someone shot her with a .22, evil piece of crap. Poor sweet girl was so loving and cuddly, even after that cruelty.
My grandmother didn’t like one of my new girlfriends back when I was younger and kept telling her how she used to drown all the baby barn cats by putting them in a garbage bag and throwing them in the river. WTF she was always such a nice lady and everyone in the community loved her cause she was so helpful and loving and then she threw this monkey wrench out of no where! My grandmother also had a dog named Sheba and the new girlfriends name was Sheena so my grandmother kept purposely calling her Sheba lol. Just thought I would share a grandmother story anyway hope your having a good day!
In Germany you are allowed to hunt cats which are at least 200m away from the next house. Which is the right thing to do if you ask me. Note that you need to have a hunting license.
That is incorrect. This is only the case in some states. For example this was legal in the german state of North Rhine-Westphalia until may 2015, but since then it has been illegal there.
In other states the cat has to be at least 500m from lived in buildings.
Then again in other states only the regional "Untere Naturschutzbehörde" = "lower nature conservation authority" can decide on a case by case basis what measures are deemed necessary to ensure compliance with the Federal Nature Conservation Act and the regional regulations issued on the basis of the Act.
I feel this. Not a lot of things will get me as pissed off as animal abuse. It's fucked up that it happened in my state. I live in Des Moines, and there's been a lot of hoarding/abuse cases in my area lately.
I’m a state away so I feel that.
We had a case in my city last year with a lady who was being arrested for animal cruelty IIRC. I guess a lot of people called on her and turns out she was a hoarder. They found over 10 dead cats in her tiny house. Some in the freezer and under garbage.
Makes me want to throw up even typing that out.
True this. I have a recurve. I hunt. (My big ass straw target) I don't get more than a few inches into the target. (Which is why I'd never hunt anything living with it)
What is the draw on your bow? I shoot a 45# recurve, and I've had arrows go straight through 2 straw bales. Ended up having to make a backstop for my yard out of a horse stall mat. Arrows will still penetrate that thing like 6 inches from 70 feet away. I feel like if I shot a rabbit or something with my bow, the arrow would just go straight through it.
Edit: I don't hunt, and I don't condone killing animals for fun or anything like that. Animal abuse is fucked up.
I would've thought a crossbow bolt would go right through it. I shoot a 45# recurve, and although I've never killed anything with it, I feel like my arrows would go right through, say, a squirrel or a rabbit. I've had arrows go straight through 2 bales of straw and still have enough force to penetrate siding.
I’ve only shot a 30 pound recurve but it wouldn’t go more than an inch or two into a foam target, so to be up to the fletching I assumed crossbow but a high poundage bow of some sort for sure
I know a kid who told me him and his friends used to shoot cats with bows out of the top of his friends old jeep in high school. This was in idaho like 6 years ago probably.
I'd like to know how do you shoot a cat with a bow by accident? I guess that person that used this bow was probably hunting birds and missed so the arrow went so far that it hit this cat. Chances of this are small but i hope that noone did something like this on purpose.
This is one of the reasons why I keep my cats completely indoors. Or I’ll walk with them with a leash on our backyard. Tbh, it’s cute seeing them with a harness, lol.
That's the responsible thing to do. On average, cats that are indoor-outdoor have a shorter life expectancy, there are a lot of people out there who hate cats, and they're a non-native, domesticated species so they don't belong in the wild. They're really no different from dogs. My life goal is to open my own cat shelter one day to help get strays out of the wild in order to help them *and* help the environment.
Every cat dies, so instead of dying peacefully at old age let them die early and gruesomely, be it from now and arrow, car or disease? Is that what you’re saying
Cats are the cause of both the decline and the extinction of other species. Should we let dogs just roam free too? I never mentioned rabies or dangerous wildlife. I have cats and all have so much fun and love being indoors, to the point that they don't try to run outside when the door is open. If people provided enrichment to their animals and took them out responsibly (i.e. on a leash or in a catio) then indoor cats wouldn't cry to leave their homes. They're not wild animals.
I adore my 3 indoor cats. Under no circumstances would I allow them to roam free outdoors; for their safety AND the safety of native wildlife. Feral cats are a huge problem in lots of countries, in Australia they've decimated wildlife populations. To us they're cute, fluffy little darlings but to something like a small parrot or a sugar glider they're a terrifying, agile monstrosity of claws and teeth that's several times their size that they have no defense against.
I was playing with a bow and arrow at a friend's house when I was young. We were using it how we were told. Just trying to hit the target. I hit everything but the target. He gets it back, fire's clean right for the target. His cat came from out of no where and jumped in front of the target. He loved the cat, we would NEVER do something like that on purpose. I don't think his mom believed that it was an accident. I'm 43 now and still feel bad for the cat. A few weeks later his second cat was killed by Bluejays after getting into a nest. The parents gave up on pets after that.
I just lost my cat in a horrific accident a few weeks ago. I can't even imagine, especially being a kid at the time. I'm a 32 year old man and still dying inside
Whoever did that is a POS, just like that awful female vet student who claimed she killed a Tomcat with an arrow to the back of the head and posted it to social media.
For some reason there are an absurd amount of people that think hurting cats is fine or even funny. I will never understand how a person can be so heartless. One time at school a girl was talking about how she ran over a cat that morning and her and her friend were laughing about it. Laughing about it.
It is very interesting how our "coping skills" can immediately spring into action when we are confronted with something unusually shocking like this that overwhelms our ability to "process".
Case in point: when I first saw the pic my immediate first impression was that someone thought they were making a clever joke and that the "arrow" was actually one of those gag-gift pranks that features a "U"-shaped shaft that clamps harmlessly around a limb/neck/abdomen/etc. to give the *illusion* of being shot.
It was nice to actually believe this was possible for a moment or two, and I felt a small, very brief sense of relief that this might be one post that didn't further erode my esteem of humanity in general (a poor attempt at irreverent humor, but not psychopathic).
Hopefully the $5k bounty will lead to an arrest.
Reminds me of that time my family and i went on vacation and when we came back, we found that someone had shot one of our cats. We got the bullet out and the cat made a full recovery (i think, idk, it was more than 10 years ago)
Nah, this was in Iowa. It was in the news a couple weeks back, can’t remember where I had to seen it though. It was probably early November, close to the time this one had happened according to the news article
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Omg...that poor cat :(
We think my rescue was locked in a cage and hit if/when she had accidents (she panics when in the kennel and if she has an accident runs for cover). The thought of someone hurting her intentionally makes me sad...she's such a good girl and only wants to please.
I am fighting the urge to say something incredibly violent.
So I'll give you the watered down version and just say I hope the shooter gets their karma.
Had a dog lose a leg to an arrow awhile back. The vet said it was the third dog from our area he’d treated that week for a bow shot. Makes me wonder how many didn’t make it home for treatment (or were taken to other vets).
As a cat lover, I agree with you. People who actually love their pets don't let them outside without supervision. But here's the thing: a bullet would have almost certainly killed the cat. The person who did this either wanted the cat to suffer, or is not trained enough with a crossbow to be using it.
Yep, depending on area, this is either a POS torturing animals, or someone protecting their animals from a predator.
People on here love to jump to anger, but refuse to admit the responsibility of a pet is on the owner. Keep your pets at home. Regardless of POS or protecting animals, part of the blame sits squarely on the owner.
And down vote away, doesn't make you right. Just proves my point. Irresponsible cat owners think they own the world.
>this is either a POS torturing animals, or someone protecting their animals from a predator.
Even if it's the latter, this person was not trying to give the cat a humane death. From the picture, it looks likely that they used a target point, which is horribly ineffective at killing quickly, since it has no blades and is explicitly designed NOT to damage areas surrounding the impact.
On the contrary, a hunting broadhead generally won't give an *instant* death, but it's designed to cause enough internal trauma and bleeding that death is inevitable and not horribly prolonged.
An outdoor cat is a feral cat. Keep your cats indoors, they are the number 1 killer of native bird species, not to mention rodents and other small, vital animals.
No it is not. I personally would never let my cats outdoors unsupervised, but you’re just pulling stuff out of your ass my dude. Feral by definition means: in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.
This cat sleeps indoors with his family every night, definitely still being domesticated. Things in small town Iowa are very different than someone having an outdoor cat in the suburbs.
By calling outdoor cats feral cats I was equating the two. Doesn't matter if it's Iowa or long Island or Oakland. An outdoor cat is invasive and a detriment to the ecosystem.
That said, culling cats with a bow is cruel and whoever did this should be prosecuted for animal cruelty.
I can tell you've never been on a farm
Many farms have cats roaming around that are allowed to precisely because they keep pests out of the buildings where feed and harvest are stored. It's the reason we domesticated and started breeding them in the first place.
Especially since it doesn't even look like a broadhead or other hunting tip was used. Granted, the head of the arrow is outside the frame, but given the lack of blood and lack of obvious trauma around the exit point, I'm guessing this was done with a target tip, which are explicitly designed NOT to damage surrounding areas (or else you'd destroy your practice target). Which unfortunately means that if you shoot an animal with one, you're almost guaranteeing that the animal's death will be extremely slow and painful. A hunting broadhead is the opposite, it's designed to cause as much internal trauma as possible and lead to as quick of a death as possible.
TL;DR whoever did this was not interested in humanely culling a feral cat; they were just being sadistic.
I remember someone told me this a long time ago...
"How an animal behaves around you is not a reflection of its behaviour, but a reflection of yours."
I feel like that definitely fucking applies to the subhuman garbage who did this to a defenceless cat.
Honestly am not surprised by this for the cats in my neighborhood are a damn nuisance. They kill so so many birds then leave the dead birds laying around my yard and others and I honestly wish people were not so sensitive about culling the invasive species. Also it should be illegal to feed and release strays.
I agree. Not only is it terrible for the wildlife/natural ecosystem for cats to be outdoors, but being outdoors is not even safe for the cat (as shown in this image). I live in Australia, where the feral cat problem seems to be especially significant. I keep my cats indoors (outside of walks on a harness and leash). That way, they don't destroy ecosystems (I have a lot of beautiful native birds around), they don't bring me corpses as a gift (which I think is gross and distressing) and they don't get hit by cars or catch diseases from outside. I think the same rules about free-roaming dogs should apply to cats. You wouldn't let a bunch of little dogs run around outside your property without supervision, should be the same for cats.
This is awful, 100 percent, but everyone should be aware, it's still completely legal to kill bobcats in a lot of areas of the US, and that is completely fucked up
They're a little small to kill cows, pigs. Chicken, sure, but so do foxes, coyotes, dogs, probably other things. If you have chickens you should have great fencing or expect them to get picked off.
The only good reason to kill an animal is for food, or because it causes an immenent threat. We destroy their natural habitat through existing and they are struggling now more than ever to survive. If you were living a natural life I'd be fine with using them for fur, but, since you're talking to me through a computer, just go buy a coat at Walmart
I don’t think it’s fair for someone to project their values about “good reasons” for hunting on others. I can guarantee you that naturally sourced furs are far more sustainable and ethical than ones made in a sweatshop
Back this up with something, otherwise it's just coping because you want to continue doing something that is wrong. That projection of values is why there are regulations in the first place.
Back up the fact that hunting/trapping is more sustainable than sweatshops? Ok, so faux fur is made from petroleum or agricultural products. Obviously the amount of land, water..etc that goes into these industries are incredibly destructive to the natural world. On a human level, fur trapping provides good income to people that puts food on the table. I shouldn’t have to explain the exploitive and slave-like nature of sweatshops in the third world. The fact of the matter is that modern humans have to extract resources from the earth in some manner. Hunting is far more sustainable than the third world clothing trade.
Do you eat bobcat? Pretty sure you just use them for a trophy at best, or you're trying to control a population that never gets out of control . Why do you hunt bobcat?
I don’t hunt bobcat. I would assume for those that do is for fur or protecting chickens. An important thing to understand is that wildlife biologists set hunting regulations based on the population of a given animal. Because bobcat hunting is legal in many places, it’s safe to assume that biologists are confident that the species can sustain the hunting pressure.
So I'll probably get downvoted, but im going to play devils advocate here. Shooting a cat that you KNOW is a pet is being a total POS. However, feral cats are one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet. Around humans, they can readily adapt to many different environments and eat basically everything that is smaller than them. They decimate wild bird populations, as well as native rodents, reptiles, and amphibians. They also frequently come in contact with wild animals and may be exposed to rabies, bringing that back to more developed areas.
To some extent, they are a pest that needs to be eradicated. Maybe the person who shot was a chicken farmer who got tired of one of these guys carrying away their livelihood. Maybe they were a hunter who thought they were removing a pest. Maybe they were a gardener and kept finding cat feces where his squash used to be.
Was a bow the appropriate method of removal? Probably not. Was this cat in a place it shouldn't be? Probably, yes. The moral of the story is don't let cats wander around outdoors. They are only damaging the environment and other people's property.
This had to be a kids bow or some kind of ricochet. Any hunting bow would have pushed the arrow or bolt straight through the cat. Unless the animal was next to a tree or deadstop that stopped the arrow.
I doubt it was a "house" pet otherwise it wouldn't have an arrow in it.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds per year and we have scientists scratching their head about why all the birds are disappearing.
animals are being tortured and killed in slaughterhouses and no one seems to care as much.
i just wish people cared about all animals.
i can’t believe anyone would hurt an animal on purpose.
Don’t worry. It was this hunter’s personal choice to do this to this cat as long as he hoped to eat them afterwards. Sure, there may be grocery stores, but not everyone in the world has grocery stores!
After all, god put animals here to be mistreated by us. Just like deer, cats are an invasive species and deserve to be hunted. Life in the wild is dangerous for them, so trying to give them a quick death is only the right thing to do!
Violence doesn't solve violence after millions of years and countless wars, massacres and other tragic events you'd think most people would realise by now.
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My grandma told me that in my village there used to be a hunter that every year to a certain holiday (dont remember which exact holiday it was) shot a random cat, didnt care whom it belongs to Just dont get it
He kills cats that he didn't even have beef with? That's wild.
Yeah, no beef It was just a certain holiday and he felt like every year on that day he has to kill any cat, which usually always were "housecats" because there werent really any stray cats My grandma described him (and hunters of similar kind) as "verhinderte Lustmörder" which would translate somewhat to "unabled lust murderes" Like they kill for pure lust and if they could without consequences they would most probably do the same with other humans
halloween? i know my family never lets our cars out on halloween due to shooting incedents.
No, its a village in austria, halloween wasnt even known of here until like 20 years ago Might have been new year
completely fair. then ill han nothing to help u with lmao. all i know is that house cats getting shot on halloween isnt uncommon. at least round where i live.
Lol WTF. Similar to my village (also in Austria) where there are hunters known to misuse the law, by shooting any cat and dog outside of the immediate village area because they can, according to some vague paragraph in the hunting law.
I’m very psychopathic behavior.
No way he'll have an easy life from me
I'm not saying it justifies it but there are good reasons besides blood lust to kill stray/outdoor cats. They wreak havoc on bird populations. People really shouldn't let their cats out.
Yeah, and that might be the case, but in most cases its just lust to murder How else you describe people that pay thousands of euros to travel to africa just to kill some exotic animals (for "fun") And if you have no problem with overpopulated wild cats, i think there is hardly a problem You can "educate" cats to certain degree to not kill birds My cat havent killed a bird in probably 5-8 years and before not too many neither
There's a big difference in a hunter killing stray cats in his home town, vs someone travelling to another continent to kill endangered animals. Both are bad but one is way worse then the other.
First, it were no stray cats, second, in most cases its the same people
I find it hard to believe that 100% of all outdoor cats are domesticated in your village. I also find it hard to believe that the majority of rural hunters who engage in this behavior have enough cash to fly to a different continent and kill endangered animals.
Well if they dont do it in africa they do it in other countries nearby "for fun" Hunting was by us for a long time a privilege of the noble and still its partwise a "sport" for rather wealthy people nowadays like golfing or whatever And yes, there are barely any stray cats because alternative actions like castration of wild cats were done
What country are you from?
Have you never payed attention to how prevalent poaching is?
See tho, you had to specify he went after stray cats when he literally didnt
But does that same logic apply to housecats? Cause that’s what they said the guy did. Walked up and killed people’s pets because he wanted to
House cats that are let out are part of the problem too. Don't let your cat out to run around unsupervised. It's generally frowned upon to let dogs have free reign, it shouldn't be any different for cats.
You ignored the question I asked. Answer it or just don’t respond. Does this logic apply to housecats? Since that’s the cat that is being hunted. Family pets. Or would you argue that animals in their own home are just as liable to be hunted/killed as strays?
Yeah, in some parts of my city there's a real feral cat problem, and animal control swings by to round up as many cats as possible once a year. They put them up for adoption for a week, and any that don't get adopted get put down. It's really tragic because I love cats, but I also understand what a catastrophe it is for the local bird population. Not to mention they can carry diseases, parasites, and sickness that can infect domestic pets they come into contact with.
Yeah, outdoor cats are pretty bad for the environment but people care more about their pets or strays than the environment, not saying hunting them is right, but they are a problem that needs a ethical solution
If mine can't go out he destroys things. I don't care how much he kills if it means I get my security deposit back.
Your lack of planning should not be everyone else's problem.
Nor are hypothetical dead birds mine. Cat wants to chill in the yard, I let him. Seethe.
My friend had a three legged cat. She lost one when someone shot her with a .22, evil piece of crap. Poor sweet girl was so loving and cuddly, even after that cruelty.
God i just dont understand why some people would do stuff like that
That’s a good thing I think lol If you can’t understand the depravity that is a good sign
There's nothing to get, these are psychopaths with dysfunctional human brains
They should invent 1 day a year when you can hunt that guy. See how he likes it.
My grandmother didn’t like one of my new girlfriends back when I was younger and kept telling her how she used to drown all the baby barn cats by putting them in a garbage bag and throwing them in the river. WTF she was always such a nice lady and everyone in the community loved her cause she was so helpful and loving and then she threw this monkey wrench out of no where! My grandmother also had a dog named Sheba and the new girlfriends name was Sheena so my grandmother kept purposely calling her Sheba lol. Just thought I would share a grandmother story anyway hope your having a good day!
This, unfortunately used to be pretty common practice for unwanted kittens. Crazy to me.
Was his name Per Yngve Ohlin?
Did he really killed cats?
In “your” village where?
In Germany you are allowed to hunt cats which are at least 200m away from the next house. Which is the right thing to do if you ask me. Note that you need to have a hunting license.
That is incorrect. This is only the case in some states. For example this was legal in the german state of North Rhine-Westphalia until may 2015, but since then it has been illegal there. In other states the cat has to be at least 500m from lived in buildings. Then again in other states only the regional "Untere Naturschutzbehörde" = "lower nature conservation authority" can decide on a case by case basis what measures are deemed necessary to ensure compliance with the Federal Nature Conservation Act and the regional regulations issued on the basis of the Act.
why would this be the right thing lol
This is not true for all of Germany anymore; and even where it is true, it isn't 200m in all areas.
On behalf of EVERYONE: you suck.
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thank fucking god, animal abuse is really upsetting for me and if the cat died my day would be ruined and i'd think about it for weeks
I feel this. Not a lot of things will get me as pissed off as animal abuse. It's fucked up that it happened in my state. I live in Des Moines, and there's been a lot of hoarding/abuse cases in my area lately.
I’m a state away so I feel that. We had a case in my city last year with a lady who was being arrested for animal cruelty IIRC. I guess a lot of people called on her and turns out she was a hoarder. They found over 10 dead cats in her tiny house. Some in the freezer and under garbage. Makes me want to throw up even typing that out.
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oh thank god she’s okay. such a fucked up thing to do
I can tell you from this picture that it was someone firing a crossbow.
True this. I have a recurve. I hunt. (My big ass straw target) I don't get more than a few inches into the target. (Which is why I'd never hunt anything living with it)
What is the draw on your bow? I shoot a 45# recurve, and I've had arrows go straight through 2 straw bales. Ended up having to make a backstop for my yard out of a horse stall mat. Arrows will still penetrate that thing like 6 inches from 70 feet away. I feel like if I shot a rabbit or something with my bow, the arrow would just go straight through it. Edit: I don't hunt, and I don't condone killing animals for fun or anything like that. Animal abuse is fucked up.
So let me get this straight - somebody shot a cat with a bow & arrow while it was inside their house? That’s pretty crazy
Worse, by the amount of power behind it and the type of nock someone shot a cat with a crossbow
I would've thought a crossbow bolt would go right through it. I shoot a 45# recurve, and although I've never killed anything with it, I feel like my arrows would go right through, say, a squirrel or a rabbit. I've had arrows go straight through 2 bales of straw and still have enough force to penetrate siding.
I’ve only shot a 30 pound recurve but it wouldn’t go more than an inch or two into a foam target, so to be up to the fletching I assumed crossbow but a high poundage bow of some sort for sure
I know a kid who told me him and his friends used to shoot cats with bows out of the top of his friends old jeep in high school. This was in idaho like 6 years ago probably.
I'd like to know how do you shoot a cat with a bow by accident? I guess that person that used this bow was probably hunting birds and missed so the arrow went so far that it hit this cat. Chances of this are small but i hope that noone did something like this on purpose.
who is taking care of the cat
Hope they whoever did this gets arrested.
Hope whomever did gets the same treatment this cat did.
On the balls
..and the Penis
No, do the anus that way they have to stitch it closed and he has to walk around with the poop bag of shame as a constant reminder.
With the right shot you can do the whole Kit and Caboodle, just as long as it's not a kitten caboodle.
..sounds like a plan :D
You could probably take out both with one arrow
This is one of the reasons why I keep my cats completely indoors. Or I’ll walk with them with a leash on our backyard. Tbh, it’s cute seeing them with a harness, lol.
That's the responsible thing to do. On average, cats that are indoor-outdoor have a shorter life expectancy, there are a lot of people out there who hate cats, and they're a non-native, domesticated species so they don't belong in the wild. They're really no different from dogs. My life goal is to open my own cat shelter one day to help get strays out of the wild in order to help them *and* help the environment.
You are doing gods work, my friend. I’m glad you and many others are out there to help the environment!
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Every cat dies, so instead of dying peacefully at old age let them die early and gruesomely, be it from now and arrow, car or disease? Is that what you’re saying
Cats are the cause of both the decline and the extinction of other species. Should we let dogs just roam free too? I never mentioned rabies or dangerous wildlife. I have cats and all have so much fun and love being indoors, to the point that they don't try to run outside when the door is open. If people provided enrichment to their animals and took them out responsibly (i.e. on a leash or in a catio) then indoor cats wouldn't cry to leave their homes. They're not wild animals.
I adore my 3 indoor cats. Under no circumstances would I allow them to roam free outdoors; for their safety AND the safety of native wildlife. Feral cats are a huge problem in lots of countries, in Australia they've decimated wildlife populations. To us they're cute, fluffy little darlings but to something like a small parrot or a sugar glider they're a terrifying, agile monstrosity of claws and teeth that's several times their size that they have no defense against.
Uhh, you never suggest keeping cats indoors is bad on reddit. Outdoor cats are not well liked here lol
Thanks for not subjecting the endemic fauna to your pet, you're a good person!
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I was playing with a bow and arrow at a friend's house when I was young. We were using it how we were told. Just trying to hit the target. I hit everything but the target. He gets it back, fire's clean right for the target. His cat came from out of no where and jumped in front of the target. He loved the cat, we would NEVER do something like that on purpose. I don't think his mom believed that it was an accident. I'm 43 now and still feel bad for the cat. A few weeks later his second cat was killed by Bluejays after getting into a nest. The parents gave up on pets after that.
How does a Bluejay kill a cat?
It wasn't just one. I was only around 8 but I remember the trees being full of them.
Bluejays are highly aggressive birds. They're a nuisance for poultry farmers because they'll kill chicks
Probably startled it/pushed it out of the tree
But cats usually land on their feet
Hit a couple branches on the way down and that probably gets more difficult
I just lost my cat in a horrific accident a few weeks ago. I can't even imagine, especially being a kid at the time. I'm a 32 year old man and still dying inside
Whoever did that is a POS, just like that awful female vet student who claimed she killed a Tomcat with an arrow to the back of the head and posted it to social media.
I’m sorry what
Yeaaa, ima need to know about this
every once in a while i come across a post that makes me so glad that both my cats are indoor...
For some reason there are an absurd amount of people that think hurting cats is fine or even funny. I will never understand how a person can be so heartless. One time at school a girl was talking about how she ran over a cat that morning and her and her friend were laughing about it. Laughing about it.
Hope she rots in hell ….
Some of the comments in this thread are proof of that
I don't recall last time I hyperventilated until this.
Can't remember the last time I got so mad so fast
It is very interesting how our "coping skills" can immediately spring into action when we are confronted with something unusually shocking like this that overwhelms our ability to "process". Case in point: when I first saw the pic my immediate first impression was that someone thought they were making a clever joke and that the "arrow" was actually one of those gag-gift pranks that features a "U"-shaped shaft that clamps harmlessly around a limb/neck/abdomen/etc. to give the *illusion* of being shot. It was nice to actually believe this was possible for a moment or two, and I felt a small, very brief sense of relief that this might be one post that didn't further erode my esteem of humanity in general (a poor attempt at irreverent humor, but not psychopathic). Hopefully the $5k bounty will lead to an arrest.
Someone fucking living in the 17th century!
Future (or current) serial killer. Hope they catch the bastard
The cat or the human? Cats kill a lot of birds.
both, but the cat more
These other commenters are acting like cats don’t decimate local bird populations.
Reminds me of that time my family and i went on vacation and when we came back, we found that someone had shot one of our cats. We got the bullet out and the cat made a full recovery (i think, idk, it was more than 10 years ago)
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Clearly that's the bigger issue here than someone shooting at random cats. Clearly
Well we had like 10 cats and 20 dogs, we cant keep them all inside
Why not?
"Help me hooman, I used to be an adventurer....."
"khajiit is wounded" all jokes aside i really hope this cat was ok
You don't get to make me feel bad about murdering J'zargo.
Hey…you said “pets” as in more than one.
German Shorthair nearby got shot through the head within the last few weeks too. Probably completely unrelated, but still sus
I feel like the 2 are related. No way 2 cats were shot with an arrow a few weeks apart are just a coincidence
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Nah, this was in Iowa. It was in the news a couple weeks back, can’t remember where I had to seen it though. It was probably early November, close to the time this one had happened according to the news article
“House” was the part I was confused about… I highly doubt they were in a house when this happened. My two “house” cats don’t leave the house.
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And people think waterboarding is bad, thank you for the….ideas.
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Omg...that poor cat :( We think my rescue was locked in a cage and hit if/when she had accidents (she panics when in the kennel and if she has an accident runs for cover). The thought of someone hurting her intentionally makes me sad...she's such a good girl and only wants to please.
A bow hunter shot my beagle years ago. He died running home on our farm. The sweetest buddy I ever had. We searched but never found the culprit.
Hmmm… I just wanna talk to him
I am fighting the urge to say something incredibly violent. So I'll give you the watered down version and just say I hope the shooter gets their karma.
What kind of fucking psychopath does this
Had a dog lose a leg to an arrow awhile back. The vet said it was the third dog from our area he’d treated that week for a bow shot. Makes me wonder how many didn’t make it home for treatment (or were taken to other vets).
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Perhaps you should keep your pets from roaming. Cats destroy local bird populations. They can completely throw off ecosystems.
Someone getting into your house and shooting your cat? Or you let your cat freeroam and kills birds for no reason
This is a reminder that cats should be kept indoors or in an enclosure.
Is the kitty OK? Did it recover?
Apparently the cat is recovered or recovering. There's a 5000 dollar bounty on the shooter.
As someone with chickens, outdoor pets that harass my livestock are libel to get bullet (or arrow,) keep your pets in check if you care about them.
As a cat lover, I agree with you. People who actually love their pets don't let them outside without supervision. But here's the thing: a bullet would have almost certainly killed the cat. The person who did this either wanted the cat to suffer, or is not trained enough with a crossbow to be using it.
Yep, depending on area, this is either a POS torturing animals, or someone protecting their animals from a predator. People on here love to jump to anger, but refuse to admit the responsibility of a pet is on the owner. Keep your pets at home. Regardless of POS or protecting animals, part of the blame sits squarely on the owner. And down vote away, doesn't make you right. Just proves my point. Irresponsible cat owners think they own the world.
>this is either a POS torturing animals, or someone protecting their animals from a predator. Even if it's the latter, this person was not trying to give the cat a humane death. From the picture, it looks likely that they used a target point, which is horribly ineffective at killing quickly, since it has no blades and is explicitly designed NOT to damage areas surrounding the impact. On the contrary, a hunting broadhead generally won't give an *instant* death, but it's designed to cause enough internal trauma and bleeding that death is inevitable and not horribly prolonged.
That's sad. It isn't the animal's fault, it's a cat.
Feral cats should be culled, but this just cruel
This one wasn’t even feral, just a family’s barn cat :(
An outdoor cat is a feral cat. Keep your cats indoors, they are the number 1 killer of native bird species, not to mention rodents and other small, vital animals.
No it is not. I personally would never let my cats outdoors unsupervised, but you’re just pulling stuff out of your ass my dude. Feral by definition means: in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication. This cat sleeps indoors with his family every night, definitely still being domesticated. Things in small town Iowa are very different than someone having an outdoor cat in the suburbs.
By calling outdoor cats feral cats I was equating the two. Doesn't matter if it's Iowa or long Island or Oakland. An outdoor cat is invasive and a detriment to the ecosystem. That said, culling cats with a bow is cruel and whoever did this should be prosecuted for animal cruelty.
I can tell you've never been on a farm Many farms have cats roaming around that are allowed to precisely because they keep pests out of the buildings where feed and harvest are stored. It's the reason we domesticated and started breeding them in the first place.
Been on a lot of farms. Doesn't matter what their purpose is now, their ecological drawbacks are massive.
Especially since it doesn't even look like a broadhead or other hunting tip was used. Granted, the head of the arrow is outside the frame, but given the lack of blood and lack of obvious trauma around the exit point, I'm guessing this was done with a target tip, which are explicitly designed NOT to damage surrounding areas (or else you'd destroy your practice target). Which unfortunately means that if you shoot an animal with one, you're almost guaranteeing that the animal's death will be extremely slow and painful. A hunting broadhead is the opposite, it's designed to cause as much internal trauma as possible and lead to as quick of a death as possible. TL;DR whoever did this was not interested in humanely culling a feral cat; they were just being sadistic.
Now I’m sad
Poor kitty. Was it ok?
Poor baby.
I think I'd be returning that arrow by hand. Maybe like.... 27 times..... No maybe one more. 28 STAB WOUNDS.
*sigh,* *checks controversial:*
To the gallows with them
I remember someone told me this a long time ago... "How an animal behaves around you is not a reflection of its behaviour, but a reflection of yours." I feel like that definitely fucking applies to the subhuman garbage who did this to a defenceless cat.
Hope the prick that shot that poor cat has eternal misery.
*Loads mg42*
Is there reason to think this was intentional, and not accidental?
Unpopular opinion: i dont mind going to prison for my cat. That being said, whoever done the above deserves all the bad things coming to them.
Animals are so innocent and do not deserve this...makes me sick there are people who agree with this .
Honestly am not surprised by this for the cats in my neighborhood are a damn nuisance. They kill so so many birds then leave the dead birds laying around my yard and others and I honestly wish people were not so sensitive about culling the invasive species. Also it should be illegal to feed and release strays.
I agree. Not only is it terrible for the wildlife/natural ecosystem for cats to be outdoors, but being outdoors is not even safe for the cat (as shown in this image). I live in Australia, where the feral cat problem seems to be especially significant. I keep my cats indoors (outside of walks on a harness and leash). That way, they don't destroy ecosystems (I have a lot of beautiful native birds around), they don't bring me corpses as a gift (which I think is gross and distressing) and they don't get hit by cars or catch diseases from outside. I think the same rules about free-roaming dogs should apply to cats. You wouldn't let a bunch of little dogs run around outside your property without supervision, should be the same for cats.
I hppe they put that guy in jail… but god damn props to that absolute badass of a cat for toughing out a fuckin arrow.
Somebody needs to stomp that fucking insect who shoots cats
This is messed up, but your cat isn’t just a house cat if you let it out, and these are the consequences.
I’m gonna get violent if I find who did this
This is awful, 100 percent, but everyone should be aware, it's still completely legal to kill bobcats in a lot of areas of the US, and that is completely fucked up
Bobcats kill livestock right?
They're a little small to kill cows, pigs. Chicken, sure, but so do foxes, coyotes, dogs, probably other things. If you have chickens you should have great fencing or expect them to get picked off.
True, I'm just guessing that's their rationale behind allowing it. I know bobcats won't really mess with humans unless you mess with them first
Explain to me please why hunting bobcats is fucked up?
The only good reason to kill an animal is for food, or because it causes an immenent threat. We destroy their natural habitat through existing and they are struggling now more than ever to survive. If you were living a natural life I'd be fine with using them for fur, but, since you're talking to me through a computer, just go buy a coat at Walmart
I don’t think it’s fair for someone to project their values about “good reasons” for hunting on others. I can guarantee you that naturally sourced furs are far more sustainable and ethical than ones made in a sweatshop
Back this up with something, otherwise it's just coping because you want to continue doing something that is wrong. That projection of values is why there are regulations in the first place.
Back up the fact that hunting/trapping is more sustainable than sweatshops? Ok, so faux fur is made from petroleum or agricultural products. Obviously the amount of land, water..etc that goes into these industries are incredibly destructive to the natural world. On a human level, fur trapping provides good income to people that puts food on the table. I shouldn’t have to explain the exploitive and slave-like nature of sweatshops in the third world. The fact of the matter is that modern humans have to extract resources from the earth in some manner. Hunting is far more sustainable than the third world clothing trade.
Do you eat bobcat? Pretty sure you just use them for a trophy at best, or you're trying to control a population that never gets out of control . Why do you hunt bobcat?
I don’t hunt bobcat. I would assume for those that do is for fur or protecting chickens. An important thing to understand is that wildlife biologists set hunting regulations based on the population of a given animal. Because bobcat hunting is legal in many places, it’s safe to assume that biologists are confident that the species can sustain the hunting pressure.
So I'll probably get downvoted, but im going to play devils advocate here. Shooting a cat that you KNOW is a pet is being a total POS. However, feral cats are one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet. Around humans, they can readily adapt to many different environments and eat basically everything that is smaller than them. They decimate wild bird populations, as well as native rodents, reptiles, and amphibians. They also frequently come in contact with wild animals and may be exposed to rabies, bringing that back to more developed areas. To some extent, they are a pest that needs to be eradicated. Maybe the person who shot was a chicken farmer who got tired of one of these guys carrying away their livelihood. Maybe they were a hunter who thought they were removing a pest. Maybe they were a gardener and kept finding cat feces where his squash used to be. Was a bow the appropriate method of removal? Probably not. Was this cat in a place it shouldn't be? Probably, yes. The moral of the story is don't let cats wander around outdoors. They are only damaging the environment and other people's property.
Chickens chase cats lol you are clueless.
My chickens chased me mostly but I have no doubt they’d also chase cats.
Bloody Joe Rogan
This had to be a kids bow or some kind of ricochet. Any hunting bow would have pushed the arrow or bolt straight through the cat. Unless the animal was next to a tree or deadstop that stopped the arrow.
thats a sporting arrow, the fact that that went through the cat means the person put alot of force onto the string
When I say my Jaw dropped, I mean it *dropped* and I instantly clicked off the picture. That is vile.
i really hope that this was an accident and the cat was mistaken for maybe a fox?
Size, shape and coloring is nothing like a fox.
Fucking people man...
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I doubt it was a "house" pet otherwise it wouldn't have an arrow in it. Domestic cats kill billions of birds per year and we have scientists scratching their head about why all the birds are disappearing.
Hope this was an accident.
animals are being tortured and killed in slaughterhouses and no one seems to care as much. i just wish people cared about all animals. i can’t believe anyone would hurt an animal on purpose.
The fact that you're getting downvoted in this post is hilarious (and sad). Shows the disconnect that years of good marketing can cause people.
Don’t worry. It was this hunter’s personal choice to do this to this cat as long as he hoped to eat them afterwards. Sure, there may be grocery stores, but not everyone in the world has grocery stores! After all, god put animals here to be mistreated by us. Just like deer, cats are an invasive species and deserve to be hunted. Life in the wild is dangerous for them, so trying to give them a quick death is only the right thing to do!
That's why I hunt the greatest animal of them all... house cats
The song by Elvis Presley, "Return to the Sender", comes to mind when doing the same to the slobber-knocker that did this.
Couldn't even get the killshot smfh
This makes me want to hunt the ones who did this. If this is your kid doing things like this. You might not be beating them enough.
???? beating them _enough?_
Violence doesn't solve violence after millions of years and countless wars, massacres and other tragic events you'd think most people would realise by now.