Who Shot Two Cats With Arrows In NLB? If You Have Any Info, Call These Numbers

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(UPDATED Feb. 28, 2014) -- If you have any information -- even the smallest factoid may help -- please inform LBPD at (562) 570-7250 or Long Beach Animal Control at (562) 570-7387 [you may initially get voice mail, follow prompts] as they investigate the killing of two cats -- shot with arrows -- in NLB in the past few weeks.

Long Beach Animal Hospital put the following information and photos on its Facebook page on Feb. 25.

[Long Beach Animal Hospital Facebook page text] -- On Saturday night [Feb. 22] a Long Beach cat was maliciously shot with an arrow. If anyone has any information please contact Long Beach Animal Control. It happened near Long Beach Blvd and Del Amo Blvd at 51st street.

Source: LB Animal Hospital Facebook page

This radiograph show the extent of the problem. The arrow pentetrated the liver, and it came into the abdomen with such force that a different lobe of the liver ruptured through the diaphragm and was in the chest cavity. Unfortunately, even after emergency surgery the next day she did not make it.
...The arrow is obvious. It has penetrated through the liver, marked in three different locations. The white arrow points to the diaphragm on the left side of the cat. You cannot see the diaphragm on the cat's right side because a lobe of the liver has ruptured through the diaphragm and literally resides inside the chest. That is the liver lobe above the other two. The dark areas are normal air inside the lung. The liver inside the right side of the cat's thorax is compressing the lung on that side and making it non-functional.
The arrow had such tremendous force it penetrated through the body wall on the left side of the abdomen, went completely through a lobe of the liver, and pushed another lobe of the liver through the diaphragm into the chest.

Again: If you have any information -- even the smallest factoid may help -- please inform LBPD at (562) 570-7250 or Long Beach Animal Control at (562) 570-7387 [you may initially get voice mail, follow prompts] as they investigate the second killing of a cat in NLB in the past few weeks.The story was first reported in news media Feb. 27 by Beatriz Valenzuela on PressTelegram.com