I feel the need to go on record here: shooting a cat with a bb gun CAN SEVERELY INJURE OR KILL IT. It does not just 'sting'. One of my cats was recently shot with a bb gun. The bb lodged in her spine, crushing the bone surrounding her spinal cord. Her hind legs and tail were PARALYZED and we had to resort to emergency surgery to restore her ability to walk. If the surgery had not worked, we would have had to put her to sleep. No one in the vet's office seemed to think it was unusual that a bb would cause so much damage - apparently people critically injure pets with bb guns all the time.
