TUESDAY ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE MT. PLEASANT MI. NEWS THERE WAS A STORY OF A TABBY CAT THAT WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A BOW HUNTER. MAN WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!!!!! TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT -- THE CAT SURVIVED ONLY TO BE BLIND IN ONE EYE AND DEAF IN ONE EAR.

IN THIS DAY AND AGE DO WE REALLY NEED THIS TYPE OF PRESS. THANK GOODNESS FOR THE IBO. THEY STOOD UP AND OFFERED A 1000.00 REWARD FOR ANY INFORMATION ON THIS IDIOT. THAT WAS ALSO PRINTED IN THE PAPER. COUDOS EXTREME TO THE IBO.

WELL I FOR ONE AM APPALED AT THIS SITUATION AND HAVE CONTRIBUITED TO THE CATS OWNER FOR THE VET BILLS. I HOPE WE CATCH THIS GUY. I THINK A GOOD PUNISHMENT WOULD BE TO NAIL HIM UPSIDE ON A POLE, BY THE FAMILY JEWELS AND GIVE HIM A DULL BROAD HEAD. SEE HOW HE LIKE IT.

OH WELL JUST VENTING.

HUNT ON HUNT HARD EAT WELL

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I saw on Ripley's Believe it or not about a cat that was shot in the middle of the back and survived. This sounds a little different though as the archer admitted to having lost an arrow while target practicing and paid ALL of the $1000.00 vet bill. I agree! Kudos to the IBO!!!!!!!!!!!!

"What we do in this life echos an eternity"

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Chef, while an idiot holding a bow looking for deer may be the culprit (I won't use the word bowhunter for a person like this) this cat may have been shot some someone in a residential area not hunting. In the lake community I lived at for some time it was not uncommon for homeowners to shoot everything with anything they had handy (the used the term nusiance animal VERY liberialy). To relay a story... I had a neighbor who's dog was shot with a small caliber firearm (it survived), later found out it was shot by a resident that had called me &quot;disgusting&quot; for hanging a deer in MY yard. The reason for the dog getting shot... it had gotten out and was in this persons trash. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>

Sadly enough these types of things will continue as long as we let them. Until more of us decide to quit being ******* an actually stand up and teach of few of these people some manners, they have no reason to not continue these types of behaviors. I can honestly tell you that I would have tried my very best to break that guy from ever shooting another dog.

Protect your hunting rights, &quot;Spay or neuter a liberal.&quot;

when my old man was about my age he was target practicing one day and his arrow went through the target and he didnt know it but his dog was lying behind it and it killed it, it tore him up awful but he told me it was a good lesson and he was jsut glad there was nobody hiding behind it and so now we always check behind our targes before we shoot.
I cant beleive somebody would shoot a pet on purpose
one more thing 1000 dollars for a vet bill MAN thats steep do you all think? thats one fancy feline

&quot;She said if I hit that fishin hole today, she's be packin all her things and she'd, be gone by noon....I'm gonna miss her, when I get home.&quot;

Actually $1000 for the vet bill is not at all unusual.

Surgery on animals is no small thing.

Sounds like that poor cat needed some serious work to survive his encounter with a dumb animal.

People like that jerk shame us all.

Silent I am not try to pick or start an argument but surely you don't believe that this our fault becouse we didn't educate someone not to shoot at sparky or fee fee. I mean come on this is a moral and ethical situation that any person should know. It's just common decency not to shoot your niehbors dog or cat becouse it's in your trash can. This is a basic moral EVERYONE should have and I doubt that us as bow hunter's saying hey billy bob don't shoot that ladies cat it gives bow hunter's a bad rep would change his mind much either. I agree that he is a piece of dirt for doing this but I hardly think it's any bow hunter's fault.

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There's more than one side to this story guys. Now I'm not defending or condoning viscousness or cruelty toward ANY animal let alone a pet of any sort BUT...

I've been asked by the land owner to &quot;take any varmit you see&quot; to which my answer was &quot; Any woodchuck, racoon possum or coyote has my full attention&quot;

He explained he was more concerned about the feral cats. He says he has a heck of a time with them. I tried to be polite and told him I wasn't real comfortable with that as I have 2 for pets. He said he understood, but &quot;Do what you can&quot;.

Now I've seen plenty from my stand, but can't get myself to do it. I like cats. But I can see this going the other way with a different hunter.

Let's not be too quick to judge, there are 2 sides to every story.

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Who's to say we're talking about a bowhunter? This could be a 10 or 12 year old kid with a beginner bow set his dad bought him for his birthday and just turned him loose. I say get all the facts, then debate over who to point fingers at.

KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.