Cat shot in the head with blow dart, survives

A cat named Red is lucky to be alive after he was shot with a blow dart in Idaho.

According to CBS News, the dart shot right though his skull above his right eye, missing barely his brain by only half a centimetre.

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After Red’s owners posted on Facebook about their cat getting shot in the head with the dart, they found that this wasn’t the only occurrence.

“This is very scary because we’re right next to an elementary school,” Red’s owner Katelyn Halpin told CBS News. “There’s someone going around shooting these specialty-ordered blowgun darts and it needs to stop and i really would like to know who is doing this.”

Local pet owners in North Idaho are taking more precautions with their pets as there is no suspect yet.