RUMFORD – Chancy has found a home.
McKenna’s Animal Adoption Agency owner Marsha McKenna said Tuesday that the white and yellow, neutered male cat that was shot with a pellet gun two weeks ago, has sufficiently recuperated so he can go home with a new family.
McKenna had hoped to find the owner of the cat. With no one stepping forward to claim ownership, Chancy will go to a local family.
A veterinarian, Dr. Fred Kent, examined the cat Tuesday morning, said McKenna.
“There’s a huge improvement. He may improve a bit more and continue to have a little bit of a balance problem,” said McKenna. “But he was able to get up and down from a couch.”
Chancy, believed to have come from Mexico, was taken to a back road in Roxbury where he was shot with a pellet gun on April 3. Four pellets, still lodged in his head, apparently upset his sense of balance. For the first couple of weeks, he wobbled when he walked, she said.
Ryan McDonald of Mexico has been summoned by Roxbury Animal Control Officer Ozzie Hart for animal cruelty. He is scheduled to appear in 11th District Court, Northern Oxford Division on animal cruelty charges on June 1.
Chancy was examined by veterinarians at a Lewiston animal emergency hospital, then by Kent the day after the shooting. He has been under McKenna’s care since.
She said he is going home with a family who really wants him. He has no special medical needs that require attention.
“This is a happy ending,” she said.
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