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Summary The cat that survived being shot through the head with an arrow was recuperating from surgery.
Max, a three-year-old black and white cat owned by a Santa Cruz area couple in California, was apparently shot with the arrow sometime over the weekend, a fact his owners discovered on Sunday evening.According to the owners, the cat had been missing for two days and when they opened their front door the cat came in, Santa Cruz County Animal Services Manager Todd Stosuy told a news agency.Thats when the owners, much to their shock, saw an arrow sticking out of the cats head, he said. The cat was acting normally, eating normally. It almost looked like one of those fake arrows.Stosuy said Max was taken to a veterinary hospital that night to have the arrow removed, under anaesthesia.It went in one side of the cats head, went through the ear and then out the top, it doesnt look like it hit the animals brain at all, he said.Authorities so far have no suspects in the shooting, but Stosuy said an animal control officer working full time on the case and canvassing the neighbourhood had already developed a few leads.He said if anyone was found to have shot Max intentionally, that person would likely face animal cruelty charges.
