Residents of a neighbourhood in Fayetteville, W.V., were shocked to find a beloved local cat slumped in the bushes with an arrow between its eyes and out of its back.
Fluff’s owner, Dean Workman, began to worry when Fluff didn’t return home Saturday night. He didn’t see him for the whole weekend.
On Monday, neighbour Mike Price was called by another resident.
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“The lady up the street called and said, ‘Mike! You need to get up here. The neighbour’s cat has been shot,’” said Price in an interview with WVNS-TV.
Price found Fluff lying beneath some bushes, alive but restrained by the arrow that had entered through his head.
The neighbour rushed Fluff to a vet, who determined that the arrow had been lodged in the cat for over 24 hours.
“It was a miracle that the cat had lived as long as it had lived,” said Workman.
Fluff is now home, recovering from an infection.
Chief Deputy Mike Fridley from the Fayette County Sheriff’s office told Global News that investigating officers had found their suspect after they found a matching arrow and speaking to the suspect’s parents.
The 18-year-old and his parents have agreed to go to police over the weekend when he returns home from college.
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