'Despicable' thugs kill pensioner's pet cat by shooting it 16 times with airgun

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Police are hunting vile thugs who killed a pet cat after its horrified owner found the beloved pet riddled with 16 airgun pellets.

The ginger tabby cat's elderly owner was walking around her garden when her cherished companion limped home, fell off the wall and collapsed.

The distraught pensioner from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, scooped up her pet and took it to the vet where x-rays revealed the feline had been shot 16 times.

The poorly pet had to be put to sleep, following the air gun attack on Monday May 6.

PC Stephen Hanlon, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: 'This is a despicable crime in which someone has targeted this defenceless animal and injured it ultimately resulting in its death. This has caused great distress to the owner.

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[GastonJ]

Bas*ards need shooting themselves tbh, hope they catch them and lock them up.

However the wicked side of me has to ask - did it die of it's injuries or lead poisoning and can she weigh it in for scrap? Had I not wrote that I'm sure someone else would, sorry