Media Cat

Jack continues to improve. He can't go outside for a while yet, and so is getting quite restless inside. He races from window to window, looking at anything that moves outside, and also tries to chase flies and spiders on the outside of the window. I think that the reaction or coordination in his legs is also improving still. I'll probably say this so often that people will get fed up... but I still can't believe how lucky he was...

He seems to be having his little moment of fame. He has been in a couple of local papers and on the local ITV news. We put out a press release last weekend, telling Jack's story, as we really want to highlight the awfulness of these attacks. I have been looking into the statistics of animal attacks etc, but more on that later.

The News and Star were very quick off the mark and produced an article, which has led to a good number of comments. People tend to be polarised about such issues, but I hope that the debate continues. This article has been repeated on several other sites such as Care2 and Moggies.co.uk.

We had a man up from the Whitehaven News on Monday who produced an article in today's edition, with a photo that makes us look evil beyond belief! We also had an exceptionally nice team out from Border TV who put together a 2 minute piece that went out on Tuesday evening, and I gather that 2 minutes is quite unusually long for such a story.

We hope that the story will continue to be covered, but the problem with the media and its readers/viewers is that we move on to new stories so quickly, and so there is a danger that Jack will soon be forgotten. There is a possibility that the News & Star will cover a follow-up, perhaps based on the reward, but no news on that yet.

Can you help in anyway? We need this story to run. Jack is lucky beyond belief. He is alive, and hopefully will continue to be. He still has a pellet stuck in his skull. The perpetrator is still out there. Atrocities like this will continue to happen. If you have any influence with any form of media, please try to raise the debate about gun control and cruelty to animals. We have raised the reward by another £200 to a total of £400, and if you would like to encourage a conviction then increasing the reward further may help.