PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Two cats were severely injured after being shot in separate incidents in Gloucester County last week.<\/p>\n
The West Deptford Police Department said the wounded cats were brought in to Epic Veterinary Urgent Care in Cherry Hill on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n
One of the wounded cats had to have surgery to remove its eye. The other had its leg amputated.<\/p>\n
Police said they were outdoor cats, and the life-threatening injuries suffered by both animals were consistent with wounds caused by a small-caliber firearm or pellet gun.<\/p>\n
Investigators said one incident happened near Ford and May avenues in West Deptford, and the other near Crown Point Road and Church Street. <\/p>\n
The cats are recovering at their respective homes.<\/p>\n
There have been no arrests. A police investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Two cats were severely injured after being shot in separate incidents in Gloucester County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[694,2600,695,15365,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-314733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-gloucester-county","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314733","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=314733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}