READING, Pa.- A Reading woman is speaking out after her cat was shot while in her yard.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always felt reasonably safe here, but I guess we have some issues,” says Janae Hershey. “There’s some bullet holes through our fence.”<\/p>\n
Hershey and her husband say their home on North 12th Street in Reading is their first together after they got married this summer, but a recent experience that nearly killed her cat, Robin, has her feeling on edge.<\/p>\n
Hershey was sitting in a chair in her backyard with the leash attached to it. Robin was on the other end of the leash over by the fence, peeking her head out underneath when she was shot.<\/p>\n
“I heard a pop, and she started hissing and running away,” says Hershey. “I went over to see what happened, and she just laid down, and I could see that she was shot in her neck.”<\/p>\n
She and her neighbor rushed the cat to the emergency vet.<\/p>\n
“I just carried her in my arms, and as we were driving there, she was going pale, and her eyes were going blank, and it was just really hard,” says Hershey.<\/p>\n
Robin suffered serious injuries, even requiring a blood transfusion. She’s recovering now, but Janae remains concerned for her safety, still not knowing who shot her.<\/p>\n
“They must have aimed at her and really focused on her, and they shot her through the harness,” says Hershey. “I can’t imagine that they didn’t see that she was wearing it. She was fully on our property. I never would’ve expected something like this.”<\/p>\n
The couple called Reading police and the ARL. They want to warn others about what happened.<\/p>\n
“I want to feel safe in my yard,” says Hershey. “I want to be able to bring my cat out into my yard and not worry about her getting shot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- A Reading woman is speaking out after her cat was shot while in her yard. “I’ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[694,8438,3837,28,22570,206,736,128,130,129,220,95708],"class_list":["post-306046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-cat","tag-injury","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pet-safety","tag-police","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting","tag-veterinarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}