Audrey Miller: You’re Going to Mess with This Woman’s Cat & Expect Not to Be Shot?

A Spring woman has been charged with aggravated assault on a family member after allegedly shooting her husband in a dispute over a pet cat, court documents show.

Audrey Deen Miller, 42, was arrested and her husband is hospitalized in non-life-theatening condition after the incident Tuesday morning. He has since returned home.

If what Miller told constables is true, the husband had it coming — she said he threatened to shoot the pet first, and had a pellet gun at the ready.

Her response: She “pulled out a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and shot her husband in the stomach,” cops told KHOU.

And, to be frank, with a mugshot like the one she’s sporting, we’re not sure we would have called her pet-related bluff.

The cat, by the way, was not injured.

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This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.