Cat named after Notorious B.I.G. shot multiple times and survives

A Prince George, B.C.,cat is being described as a "miracle" after survivingmultipleshots from a pellet gunat close range.

Now his owner wonderswho could be so cruel to a petandshe's worried it could be someone in her neighbourhood.

"Biggie" named after the rapper The Notorious B.I.G who was fatally shotin 1997 went missing from his home in the College Heights area of Prince George on Nov. 3.

His owner, NicoleCrandell,worried he had been caught by a fox, but two and a half weeks later she got a call from a local veterinariantelling her Biggie was aliveand full of pellets from a gun.

"Excuse me, what? Pellets? What do you mean?"Crandellremembered saying. "And then they said, 'Yeah, he's been shot multiple times.' "

It's like a pellet gun was held up to his head and his body... they were doing this on purpose.- Cat owner Nicole Crandell

The vet told Crandellthat Biggie wasfound more than 15 kilometres away from her home and taken to theSPCA before beingtransferred to have the pellets removed.

"He had pellets in his head, in his cheek, his neck, his jaw, his back," Crandell said.

"The vet said the way the pellets were in his head, it's like a pellet gun was held up to his head and his body ... they were doing this on purpose."

Crandell said she is "completely disgusted" somebody would do that to a catand is worried it could have been someone in her neighbourhood.

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TheSPCAis investigating.

As for Biggie, he appears to be making a full recovery and is "super-stoked" to be back home.

"He's a little miracle cat,"Crandellsaid.

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