Hi my neighbour was using an air rifle on Monday/Tuesday, it sounded like he was aiming for our trees and my cat does climb in them (they are not his tree's as he's one house down). My cats been acting different for a few days and today we had a proper look at him and found a wound that looks like it was caused by an air rifle. The vets are going to X-ray him tomorrow morning and check him over but what can we do about this? It seems so barbaric and I'm struggling not to go round and ask him what the hell he was thinking, it was the neighbour and his friend both in their 60's so not teenagers.
The neighbours garden where he was shooting from backs onto the nursery play area that my son goes to and he was also playing in the nursery garden at the time (I can hear him from my house) it's a very built up area with a school, nursery, and lots of housing. Is it legal to shoot anything in this kind of area? The neighbour always lets his dog chase my cat when he walks past our house, he takes his dog of the lead so he can run after our cat when he's just sitting in our front garden, we've caught it on camera and seen it happen through the window. His dog managed to get into our back garden a few weeks ago from his back garden, we were very polite to the neighbour when he came to retrieve his dog but he does seem to want our cat to come to harm from what we've witnessed previously.
We haven't confronted the neighbour before as I've always felt confident my cat would be able to defend himself against his dog so just let it be but now that my cats actually harmed and we are looking at £££ vet bills I'm not sure what to do?
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ponderland · 13/08/2020 17:11
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