Dave the Tabby Cat : Pet Kitten Survives Crossbow Spearing

Meowch indeed....Dave the Tabby cat has had one of his nine lives taken away, amazingly surviving a cross bow weapon attack from an unknown thug.

Dave the cat, missing from his owners for a week, managed to stagger back home with the 14-inch spear in his body.

Dave the Kitten.

The spear entered Dave 11-moth-old Tabby's neck and came out by his left elbow. Lucky for Dave, the cross bow attack missed his heart and lungs by a fraction.

Owner Andrew Childerhouse said: "This defies understanding of people's minds. It is absolutely horrific. Who would do this to a cat?"

"Dave is a very friendly cat so someone probably got very close and then let him have it."

Andrew Childerhosue said his two daughter were "hysterical" when they discovered Dave the Tabby.

"The girls were hysterical. But Dave could still walk around and looked comfortable. There was no blood showing from the wound."

"He was starving and very smelly from where he had been lying in his own mess."

Dave the kitten is now recovering after five days in intensive care.

Dave the Tabby Kitten, spear thought the body, but will recover.