Cat shot 13 times in the head, walks home alive

An Australian cat named Smokey was shot 13 times in the head from an air rifle but still found his way home after this vicious act of animal cruelty.

A 9-year-old cat named Smokey walked home and lay on his owner's doorstep bleeding from the head after being missing for three days. The cat was wounded after being shot 13 times in the head, according to AFP. Police called this "a shocking act of animal cruelty." Owner Liz Dunn said she was tremendously horrified by the scene, according to ABC Online, "I was just really shocked that someone could take an animal and literally hold them down and just keep shooting them." Australian Sergeant Craig Pearse told reporters the medical examiner found 13 pellets in the cat's head and face. "This is just a shocking incident where someone either working alone or in a group has shown no regard for animal life and left Smokey for dead," he said. During the examination, Smokey was heavily sedated as the pellets were being removed. Hugh Wirth, Victoria state's president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said this act was most likely done by males between 18 and 20. "It's a pattern that we see throughout Australia and there's only one way to deal with it -- and that's jail," he said. Nevertheless, police have suggested the only way this type of cruelty ends is if attitudes change. They explained that the general consensus among Australian males is that cats are feminine creatures.