Injuries to animals that were shot with air rifles leapt by more than 40% last year to nearly 800, the RSPCA has said.
The horrific attacks include several cats shot in the face, whose eyes had to be removed, and others who did not survive after being shot.
The RSPCA is seeking to highlight the attacks as it launches a new awareness campaign about the work of the society's inspectors.
Staff members investigating attacks can often find themselves in the firing line, with three out of four inspectors suffering some sort of abuse every year while doing their job, the society has revealed.
In 2012 alone, inspectors were assaulted or threatened 246 times.
TV presenter and wildlife expert Chris Packham said: "I take my hat off to RSPCA Inspectors, I wouldn't want to go into the situations they do and deal with people who have inflicted such barbaric cruelty on defenceless animals - that takes real courage and professionalism.
"Sadly dealing with the most stomach-churning suffering is every day work to these men and women. I dread to think what would happen if they weren't there to help."
The charity says that in the last 24 months, its inspectors have been threatened with: a claw hammer, a knife, a crossbow, a shotgun and a machete, among other weapons.
As well as being assaulted, a number of staff have been subjected to death threats.
The attacks on staff have come while inspectors have been investigating a number of incidents of the serious abuse of animals.
These have included: a dog beaten with a pole, a swan shot with a cross bow, a cat beaten against tree, a three-week-old lamb with its ears cut off, a lurcher stamped on, run over and stabbed with a potato peeler, a bird shot straight through its eye with blowgun dart and a mouse tortured with power tool.
RSPCA inspector Susan Haywood, who was herself assaulted last year, said she felt she had no choice but to act whenever cruelty was reported.
She said: "The bottom line is that the call comes in and your only thought is that there is an animal needing my help and you don't even think about what could happen to you and whether there could be violence directed at you."
"There was no way these animals can help themselves - that's why our job is so important because we can get animals the help they so desperately need."
The charity's Everyday Heroes appeal aims to highlight the dangers faced by many animals and to support the workers who try to protect them.
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