Two cats have been shot in the Tuxford area.

Nottinghamshire Police is appealing for information after reports of domestic cats being shot in the Tuxford area.

Two cats were shot at with air weapons on July 5, with the pets both requiring operations, which they have both survived.

One of the cats was also shot in June 2019 too, five weeks previous.

It's not known where the incidents happened exactly, but it's believed they happened in the local Tuxford area, as the cats don't stray far from their home address.

Nottinghamshire Police would like to remind air weapon users that it is illegal to fire an air weapon:

- closer than 15 metres of the centre of a highway, if by doing so you cause any member of the public , using that right of way, to be injured, interrupted or endangered.

- closer than 15 metres from the centre of any bridle path or footpath.

Anyone with any information relating to these incidents is asked to call Nottinghamshire Police on 101 quoting incident number 376 of 7 July 2019.