Cat found shot with arrow recovering; suspect sought [Video]

NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA – An animal cruelty investigation is underway in Northeast Philadelphia after a cat was found shot in the leg with an arrow.

“Obviously, this is not just a normal injury. There was some heinous act involved in this,” Gillian Kocher, Director of Public Relations and Marketing with the Pennsylvania SPCA, stated.

Thursday night, the PASPCA law enforcement team got a call letting them know a cat, named Kimiko, had been terribly injured.

“Everyone who hears it is horrified. I mean, if you see the X-ray, just from that alone, you can tell this is horrible,” Kocher said. “A caretaker of a colony of cats returned to feed the cats that she normally feeds and found one of them with some horrific – an arrow in its hind end.”

After emergency surgery to remove the arrow, Kimiko is recovering.

Kocher continued, “We are very lucky and the cat is very lucky that it …