SAITAMA — A 64-year-old man in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kumagaya was detained on May 2 for apparently hurting a roaming cat with a homemade blowgun “simply for enjoyable.”
Saitama Prefectural Police detained Tomio Taguchi on suspicion of breaching the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals. He has actually supposedly confessed to the claims, and was estimated as stating, “I did it on a lark, simply for enjoyable.”
The suspect apparently shot a homemade blowgun at a roaming cat in a park along the Arakawa River in the city in between April 28 and the night of April 29, hurting the animal.
According to the prefectural authorities’s life and economy department, a cat was discovered with an approximately 10-centimeter-long arrow-like things stuck in its back at a home in the city on the night of April 29, and a resident called authorities. Taguchi’s participation emerged as Kumagaya Police Station had actually formerly provided him a caution for shooting a blowgun at the Arakawa riverbed last summertime. The arrow was made from an approximately 20-centimeter-long iron rod, and tubes and a number of lots arrows were taken from his home.
The cat was taken into care on the night of April 30 on the properties of your home where it was discovered. It went through surgical treatment at a veterinary medical facility in the city and is said to be succeeding.
(Japanese initial by Hayato Narisawa, Saitama Bureau)
