Since Jack was shot with an airgun, these are some of the airgun incidents involving animals...
South Wales Argus, 20 April 2010
A family cat is recovering after being shot twice with a pellet gun in Newport, Gwent. He was found behind the garden shed covered in blood. One of the pellets was close to his heart and lungs.
Express & Star, 19 April 2010
A swan has been shot dead with an air rifle at a beauty spot in Great Wyrley, Staffordshire. The swan is believed to have been nesting on eggs, meaning its chicks will also die.
Northern Echo, 16 April 2010
A lamb has been shot and killed with a high-powered air rifle at a farm in Dalton, North Yorkshire. The farmed found the lamb in a remote field. It had been shot twice. There had been a similar incident in the same field last year when two lambs were shot and left for dead.
Westmorland Gazette, 15 April 2010
A sniper with an airgun has been taking pot shots at pigs on farms in South Lakeland. Fifteen animals at a farm in Allithwaite, Cumbria, were found peppered with pellets and police believe the incidents may be more widespread. Pellets were found in meat supplied to a butcher's shop at Grange-over-Sands.
This is Cornwall, 15 April 2010
A cat has been shot and killed in Helston, Cornwall. Her owners thought she had been involved in a cat fight but her condition deteriorated and she died. An x-ray revealed two airgun pellets, at least one of which had penetrated her chest and ended up in her neck. The shooting was described as appalling by the local vet.
Cambridge News, 14 April 2010
A swan was shot twice in the neck and left to die. The gunman was disturbed by two walkers in Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire, and was carrying the wounded bird under his arm. When he was spotted he dumped the swan and his air rifle and ran off.
From the Gun Control Network.
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