Police in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 64-year-old man on suspicion of violating the Animal Welfare Law after he shot an arrow from a home made blowgun right into a stray cat final week.
According to police, Tomio Taguchi has admitted taking pictures the cat in a park close to the Arakawa River someday on April 28, and quoted him as saying he did it “half just for fun,” NHK reported.
A girl reported seeing the cat with an arrow protruding from its physique on April 29. The lady mentioned the stray cat would usually come to her backyard the place she would feed it. She mentioned she made repeated makes an attempt to seize the cat however it ran away.
The cat got here again to the girl’s home on Monday evening and he or she was in a position to seize it. The cat was taken to a veterinary clinic the place it was handled. The protruding a part of the arrow was about 10 cms lengthy.
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