Auckland girl is distraught after her cat Kynava was shot and killed this morning. Photo / Zelda Garcia
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A North Shore girl is bereft and distraught after she discovered her cat had been shot early this morning.
Zelda Garcia, of Browns Bay, advised the Herald she was “devastated” to lose her Bengal cat, Kynava, having heard it “screaming” this morning and discovering it lined in blood on her doorstep.
“I just can’t imagine there’s somebody that can be so cruel, and you know, you think you know the area you live in and don’t expect anybody around could do something like this,” she stated.
Garcia believed Kynava was not shot on her property, however had “dragged himself home, the poor boy”, leaving a “blood trail through the garden”.
She claimed Kynava couldn’t have been shot by a BB gun as a result of the taking pictures had left an entry and exit wound.
“What the police officer said is that it shows it was a fairly high-velocity gun, because normally if it was an air gun or BB gun it [a bullet or pallet] would get stuck in him, but it just went straight through him,” Garcia stated.
She was at a loss as to who would have shot her cat, saying there had not been any animosity between her and her neighbours, and she or he had by no means heard any complaints about Kynava.
“It’s just somebody that was bored this morning and decided to just randomly shoot at some living being.
“We can just be grateful he’d managed to come home,” she stated.
“To the evil devil that shot and killed our cat, may you rot in hell. Watch your cats, people, there is a demon amongst us.”
The Herald has approached police and the SPCA for remark.
A lorikeet was killed by a slug gun in Murrays Bay final June.
And in July, an elderly Canterbury couple’s cat was shot and killed. The couple believed their cat was killed by a rouge hunter close to their rural property.
In 2019, considerations had been raised a couple of spate of cat shootings in Prebbleton, close to Christchurch. SPCA spokeswoman Jessie Gilchrist stated three shootings in three years within the space recommended the incidents may need been linked.
Residents Cody Hayton and Emilia Petronelli have paid greater than $2500 in vet payments to deal with Riko, who was shot a number of instances and misplaced his eye.
Raphael Franks is an Auckland-based reporter who covers breaking information. He joined the Herald as a Te Rito cadet in 2022.
