We recently took our cat Margot to the vet because she had slowed down eating to a point where we were concerned. $350 later, they said she was a healthy cat.

But here’s the interesting thing. On an x-ray that wasn’t helpful in diagnosing her current condition, they found something odd — a BB, as in one shot out of a gun. They said it had made it into her leg but hadn’t hit the bone and probably wouldn’t cause her any physical problems.

She’s always been skittish around everyone except her “mom” — our daughter who lives downstairs with her, and Margot had terrorized a couple of our cats before we figured what was going on.

We always knew that she had a bit of a rough childhood, being picked up as a stray kitten in Elk County, PA and then shipped hours away to PAWS down here, where we adopted her in 2017.

It may explain some of her behavioral problems though, and it breaks our hearts to think that someone would shoot an innocent kitten. It brings us all a little closer to our little Margot.