Pets blasted in face for 'fun' as gun attacks rise

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- NADA FARHOUD

EMMA Gordon will never forget the morning she found her young cat, Rocket, miaowing in agony on her living room floor.

The 50-year-old civil servant expected to find him waiting at the bottom of the stairs, where he'd normally greet her.

Instead, he was fighting for his life.

She said: "He was absolutely petrified and shaking on the floor with his eye socket bleeding.

"It was horrific. I rushed him to the vets, who initially thought he must have caught his eye on a twig or thorn and immediately began to operate."