The family spent the entire weekend searching for her and on Sunday morning they found her whimpering under a bush in distress. Stella was rushed to an emergency vet where they learned she had been shot twice. She died that day from her injuries.
One Long Island family is asking the community for help in finding who shot their beloved cat. Stacey Sager has the details.A family from Long Island is begging for the community's help in finding the person who shot their beloved cat.
Owner Margaret Oliva said they let their 11-year-old cat Stella out early in the morning on September 1, but she didn't return that night -- something the family says was very unusual for her.They spent the entire weekend searching for her, and on Sunday morning, they found her whimpering under a bush in distress.Stella, known for her feisty personality, drinking from the sink, and chomping on corn, was no match for her wounds.
"We waited the whole day," Oliva said. "It was touch and go, touch and go, until finally she passed.""The cat was shot twice," Nassau SPCA Detective Matt Roper said. "They found two projectiles located in the cat, one in his thoracic region in his lungs, and one in one of his limbs.""We lost something very precious to us," Oliva said. "There's no words for that. When my husband passed, she got me through it. She was my little angel.
"School just started," Roper said. "This could be a high powered pellet gun. This could be something that could be shot a couple of houses length, a couple of yards in length."
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