Is air rifle gang to blame as 39 cats go missing? Owners in North Wales seaside town call in RSPCA and police after several pets are discovered shot or poisoned

Is air rifle gang to blame as 39 cats go missing? Owners in North Wales seaside town call in RSPCA and police after several pets are discovered shot or poisoned 

Cat owners in Caernarfon, north Wales, fear for their pets after as many as 39 mysteriously disappeared or were found dead in a few months. Residents say several were discovered shot or poisoned. They have urged owners not to allow their pets out at night and called in police and the RSPCA amid fears they are being deliberately targeted. Karen Bohana (right with surviving cat Charlie), 35, has lost two cats in seven months. Her 14-month-old tabby cat, Nellie (inset bottom), disappeared in August, while kitten Motto vanished four weeks ago. Dana Macdonald, 31, said her black cat Snoop (inset top) went missing six weeks ago at the same time that three others on her street disappeared. 'I am so upset, I think he has been hunted,' she said.