Outrage over female vet who shot feral cat

[broncolcj]

In Wyoming feral cats are classified as predators and can be shot on sight due to their detrimental effect on wildlife. She just lives in the wrong place.

 

[Lrntolive]

I think some people are reading these articles as if the news was still fact and getting emotionally charged.

First, whether the fact the cat was feral or was a pet is still to be determined. Having a photo of a cat with your family does not necessarily make it your pet. If the cat is not collared with the proper tags, it can be considered feral if it is outside all the time. I've known many people who fed cats that they called pets, but ran around the neighborhood with no collar killing song birds and squirrels. When I asked them why they didn't bring their pets inside, they explained that the cat lived in the neighborhood and they just called it their "pet." Can people do this with dogs? Of course not, so why is it acceptable with cats.

Second, the lady is an idiot for posting a picture on facebook like that. Doesn't make her guilty of killing a pet. Innocent until proven guilty. I still believe in this. So everyone should shut the hell up and let a court or jury of her peers decide if she should be punished for being stupid.

Third, I think the lady gives hunters a bad name just from her reference of using a bow and saying it was her first bow kill. Animal activists will just twist it to use for their campaign, which really is a shame. A true hunter can brag about a hunt, but to do what she did in her own backyard and post it on Facebook is truly distasteful.

Just my $0.02.

 

[Hogpatrol]

My two cents: Right, wrong or indifferent that was just plain dumb posting that online. It seems like an epidemic, people and I'm including hunters, just don't THINK before they act. If you're so inclined to whack a domestic animal, best keep your mouth shut and bury the evidence.

 

[enysse]

It was not smart to post the picture at all, no common sense shown

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I think some people are reading these articles as if the news was still fact and getting emotionally charged.

First, whether the fact the cat was feral or was a pet is still to be determined. Having a photo of a cat with your family does not necessarily make it your pet. If the cat is not collared with the proper tags, it can be considered feral if it is outside all the time. I've known many people who fed cats that they called pets, but ran around the neighborhood with no collar killing song birds and squirrels. When I asked them why they didn't bring their pets inside, they explained that the cat lived in the neighborhood and they just called it their "pet." Can people do this with dogs? Of course not, so why is it acceptable with cats.
just my $0.02.

Never understood this......cats, as "Pets", should be indoor animals. When I was a kid growing up, we had a "crazy cat family" whose cats roamed the neighborhood.......and one day one of their "pets" attacked a teenage girl for no reason as she came out of her home; jumped at her from their boat as she left her home and but a set of (deep) claw marks in her chest. Of course, state & local laws being what they are, the cat wasn't vaccinated for rabies (Don't know if the girl was required to get shots or not.....this was back in the late 60's). I've never understood why my dogs, which are contained by a fence system in my yard, are required, by law, to be vaccinated for rabies, but house cats, which roam neighborhoods at will, aren't...........

My mother had an issue in her neighborhood of one of the neighbors feeding feral/stray cats......they would come over and use my mom's flower beds as a litter box (or worse, just crap on the steps), and kill birds from her bird feeder. While the crap is bad enough, it also contains parasitic worms such as hookworms & roundworms; toxoplasmosis, etc. My mom's attempts to get anything done by calling animal control were in vain!!! They wouldn't even loan us a live trap to help control the problem, so we took care of it ourselves. I don't understand why we had to pay money for other peoples problem animals, yet we are considered the villains! Guess that's all part of the new socialist order we are headed for here in America

Someone needs to tell me why euthanizing a cat from the city is a four year felony (animal cruelty), but do the exact same thing in the country is considered a "public service".

 

[Hogpatrol]

In Delaware, dogs, cats and ferrets over six months old are required to have rabies vaccinations. When you think about it, feral cats are an invasive species.

 

[HTXHunter]

I work about 30 minutes from the town where this happened, and we recently had a lot of feral cats that were living in and around the shop that I work in. Our company had hired somebody to come in and trap the cats and take them to the local animal shelter to be given up for adoption. So a guy came in and had them all trapped and gone in a few weeks. The company later found out that all of the cats, 27 in total, were taken to the shelter and immediately euthanized?! and they later got a bill for $4000 to do all this. I laughed when I heard this because they could have just shot them all, paid a lot less, and the cats probably would have had a MUCH less traumatic experience. It's pretty dumb that you have to hire an expert to come and get rid of them, and then they just do the same thing that you could have done with a 3 cent .22 round

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

It's pretty dumb that you have to hire an expert to come and get rid of them, and then they just do the same thing that you could have done with a 3 cent .22 round

3 cents a round?! Holy crap.....where are you finding .22 LR ammo at 3 cents a round! I went to several gun stores and a gun show yesterday (friend just got two new rifles, so we had to stock up on brass and reloading supplies), and the cheapest......cheapest.......22LR I found was 10 cents/rd!!!!!
And that was that "Aquila" stuff..................

 

[lwaters]

Here in Kansas we have trouble keeping cats on the farm. Coyotes and bobcats love them.

 

[HTXHunter]

3 cents a round?! Holy crap.....where are you finding .22 LR ammo at 3 cents a round! I went to several gun stores and a gun show yesterday (friend just got two new rifles, so we had to stock up on brass and reloading supplies), and the cheapest......cheapest.......22LR I found was 10 cents/rd!!!!!
And that was that "Aquila" stuff..................

The last time I bought them that's what I got a box of a 1000 for? I guess it's been a long while since I bought them

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

The last time I bought them that's what I got a box of a 1000 for? I guess it's been a long while since I bought them

Yes, it has.............................

 

[Clayton]

Short time back Cheaper Than Dirt wanted $39.99/box (100 rounds) for Mini Mags. They were out of stock. Wonder how many they sold at that price.

 

[badsection]

If it is a pet, it should have a collar with a current tag indicating it is current on a rabies shot. It should not be left to roam in any case. Roaming is a form of cruelty to your pet.