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CRYSTAL LAKE, Illinois ( WBBM ) — A Crystal Lake family is shocked, saying someone shot and paralyzed their cat this past weekend.
Police were in the family’s neighborhood Thursday, looking at doorbell cameras after a family’s confusing discovery. The family remains shocked that such a thing happened.
Kylie Rodriguez says she took her cat, Timmy, to the vet this weekend after they came home to find him with a wound on his back, unable to stand on all four legs.
“She was like, ‘Well I’m going to show you the X-ray. You’re going to be really surprised, but there’s a bullet,’ and I was like, I was just so taken back,” said Rodriguez. “I was, that was not even going through my mind at all that that was what it was.”
The vet said the item lodged in the cat’s spine was definitely a bullet—it was too large to be a BB pellet.
When Rodriguez and her family checked their own cameras, they found the cat been hurt less than an hour after they left in the morning. He was seen crawling back home, dragging his hind legs.