DUNBAR, Pa. -- State police and the SPCA are investigating after someone shot and killed a Fayette County house cat with an arrow in Dunbar Township.
"I can't believe someone could be so cruel," Michelle Zuzak said on Wednesday.
Fluffy, a 2-year-old cat, slipped out of Zuzak's home on Green Street after a tree limb shattered a window during last weekend's rainstorm.
The woman found the animal, wounded by an arrow, outside her home early Monday morning.
"Just horrible wailing," Zuzak told Channel 4 Action News' Jennifer Miele. "Talking to him and petting him would calm him down, but as soon as you quit petting him, he would start crying again."
Despite the efforts of a veterinarian, the cat died from its injuries late Tuesday.
Zuzak told Miele the cat was very loving and would put its paws around your neck to 'hug' the person holding it.
"When you have your animal die in your arms and you've done everything you can -- $952 to try to save him, that was every penny that me and the girls had left, and now the cat's gone, too," Zuzak said.
Anyone with information is asked to call state police at 724-439-7111.
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