'Terminator cat' survives being shot and run over by car

A pet cat named Tinsel has been renamed The Terminator – after surviving a peppering with air rifle pellets and being run over by a car. The four-year-old moggy miraculously survived being hit more than 10 times with an air rifle outside her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.

Just one month after vets saved her life in the 'drive-by shooting,' the brave puss was then flattened by a car and had to have metal plates put into her pelvis last month.

Owner Tim Gamble, 55, said pals suggested he change Tinsel's name to The Terminator because of her ability to survive a gun attack and road accident – much like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the hit 1984 movie.

She has now been dubbed the 'hardest cat in Britain' by her owner, who said she never expected his beloved moggy to survive.

He said: ‘She really is remarkable - to look at her you wouldn't know anything had happened to her.’


/Metro.co.uk/