A woman is seeking justice after someone used a nail gun on her dog.

Maureen Yeo said Kuma, her 2 1/2-year-old German shepherd went missing from her 20795 Cariboo Hwy, property on Sunday and a woman found him on Wednesday in the driveway of her Hixion home and took him to the North Cariboo SPCA.

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When Yeo, who had filed a report of Kuma's disappearance to the SPCA, went to pick him up, she noticed something in his head.

Thinking he had been shot with a pellet gun, Yeo took Kuma to the Hart Family Veterinarian clinic where a trio of three-inch nails were discovered. Two were under were just under the skin, but one had pierced his skull a little higher than between his eyes.

"I threw up," Yeo recalled when first told the news. "I started shaking, I broke down and I thought 'oh my god, these nails are in his brain."

The nails were extracted and miraculously, Kuma survived. Other than appearing a little slow, he's doing well.

"He's wagging his tail when he sees us, he seems to be almost normal," Yeo said.

Yeo said the SPCA has launched an investigation. She is at a loss to understand why someone would do this and is worried the same thing could happen to other animals.

"I want these people caught," Yeo said. "I don't want another animal to go through that. That's just heinous."

Yeo described Kuma as a friendly pooch. He lives in the yard of Yeo's business, Uniwide Drilling Co. Ltd. at the corner of Old Cariboo Highway and Courval Road.

"He's a shop dog, he's a yard dog," Yeo said. "People are with him every day and he's just a beautiful dog, he doesn't have a mean bone in his body."

Yeo had plenty of praise for the staff at Hart Family Veterinarian.

"I called back a couple days later because he was breathing funny and they said bring him in right now and they took him in immediately," Yeo said. "They've just been great with him."

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the SPCA at 250-562-5511.