Stop cats being targeted by air guns: sign our petition.

Cats are being targeted in horrifying air gun attacks.

To you, a cat like Billy is a beautiful animal. But to the person who coldly pulled the trigger, Billy was nothing but a target.

Poor Billy has been left blind in one eye

When our vets at the National Cat Adoption Centre in Sussex first saw Billy, he had so many puncture wounds they thought he’d been attacked by a wild animal. But as the treating Veterinary Officer recalls: “When we looked at his X-rays we could see his whole body and head were literally peppered with air gun pellets.”

Two pellets were removed from Billy’s neck but the rest, particularly the four lodged in his head, were just too deep. The Veterinary Officer said it was a “miracle” Billy had survived at all. Billy has been left totally blind in one eye and may only be able to see shadows with the other.

On average nearly four cats a week are being shot with an air gun in the UK.

Chaos was a victim of an air gun too. She was shot between her eyes in September 2016 in Neath, South Wales. The pellet miraculously missed her brain and lodged in the muscle between her spine and gullet, where it remains.

Chaos's X-ray reveals an air gun pellet

The pellet did, however, shatter the bones in her nose making her unable to breathe except through her mouth which, of course, prevented her from eating or drinking.

She was fitted with a feeding tube which has now been removed and she is able to eat and drink again. She has only been outside once since her recovery and was frightened by the lights outside the house which tends to support the vet’s theory that a light was shone in her face to temporarily blind her before being shot.

Chaos after the shooting

These poor cats are being maimed, blinded and even killed. That’s why we’re asking you to take a very important action today.

Please sign and share our petition calling for air guns to be licensed in England and Wales.

Currently, every air gun in England and Wales is unlicensed. It’s all too easy for people intent on cruelty to legally get their hands on these lethal weapons. By signing our petition, you will help us pressure the government to make it illegal to own an air gun without a license. Sign our petition.

Your support will make a real difference. Thank you.