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Family fear cat killer is SHOOTING moggies

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Published date25 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
And they say it comes just two years on from the same thing happening to their previous pet. The family lost Loki, an all-black cat, after he was believed to have been "shot by an air rifle" last week

It is thought to have happened on Wednesday, April 15, in the Mirfield area of Huddersfield. Loki was only six months old and had been with the family since he was a kitten.

The cat's owner, Kimberley Gibbons, 34, said: "Last Wednesday we were calling Loki in, he was an outdoor cat like all of our cats have been.

"He could be quite brazen, sometimes he came in and other times he wasn't bothered, it was nice and warm out so we didn't think too much of it but then he didn't come in for his tea which was unusual.

"Later on my husband spotted him lying out in the rain, he was limp, my husband originally thought he might have been run over.

"He seemed to have matted blood on his side, when I got home

You something happen from work I shaved the area to investigate and there was a hole on his side, a perfect circle, just like what happened with our other cat Ginger two years earlier.

"We rang the vet and insisted he had an urgent appointment and told them that we thought he had been shot.

"The vet could tell straight away something wasn't right, his temperature was really high, she put him on fluids and some pain relief and we were told we had to leave him overnight.

"I got a phone call about 7.30am.

"They said they had put him under and opened him up to have a look inside and they had found a pellet lodged inside him, there was just too much damage caused to his organs and they had to put him down there and then. We were heartbroken.

"My children (aged six and eight) are absolutely devastated.

"The kids were so upset and obviously it brings back memories of Ginger, they've had to have two days off school because of it."

Kimberley told the Examiner: "With Ginger it was around two years ago, similar circumstances, it was quite warm outside and he'd been out for a while.

"He eventually came in and it was my husband that said 'there is something wrong with Ginger',' at first I thought he had been poisoned because...

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