Police search data after Millcreek household cat shot in head (Photo: Jim Durrant)
MILLCREEK, Utah (KUTV) —
The cat, named Cookie, is presently steady, however a CT scan at Advanced Veterinary Care will present extra data into her situation.
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Owner Jim Durrant mentioned he normally lets her out within the yard round 10:30 a.m. every single day. His daughter, Phyllis Vollmer, mentioned when she seen Cookie hadn’t are available in, she went to examine exterior.
That’s when she discovered her dad’s cat bleeding beneath the trailer.
“I scooped her up as a result of she had fairly a little bit of blood on her face. Usually she simply form of hangs out on the fence line, or she’ll sit on the shed within the yard,” Vollmer mentioned.
They instantly rushed Cookie to Advanced Veterinary Care, the place Veterinarian Surgeon Lisa Anderson defined, “She has an entry wound on the left aspect of her neck, and primarily based on the x-rays, it has lodged on the proper aspect, close to her nasal cavity… We’re presuming it to be a bullet from a .22 gauge rifle.”
“There’s loads of little children on this neighborhood too. I can not perceive why folks would do one thing like that,” Durrant mentioned. “People must assume earlier than they do silly stuff.”
Durrant mentioned this was particularly onerous as a result of Cookie had been a help animal for him after he’d misplaced his spouse of 65 years a number of weeks in the past.
“A variety of stuff has occurred within the final three or 4 weeks. This simply added to it in fact,” Durrant mentioned.
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Police mentioned there are not any leads or surveillance video of the incident. Anyone with data is requested to contact the Unified Police Department at 801-743-7000.