Posted on 04/27/2015 10:50:28 AM PDT by QT3.14
By now, you’ve probably heard of Kristen Lindsey. She’s the veterinarian from Brenham who’s given more bad press to the state than Blue Bell after she posted a picture on Facebook of herself, smiling and holding an arrow with a dead cat on the end of it:
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Drift, what is she doing killing a cat that she doesn’t know is a pet or not?
So far on this thread you keep searching for some argument to justify her, anything, that is why you keep switching around, searching for something that works.
Some of your posts just reveal that you don’t like cats.
You aren’t interested in this case, you are just venting about cats, you don’t like them.
It may have taken an arrow in the knee.
Yes, they tend to die off quickly from disease, predators, and parasites.
Your solution is a very expensive solution. I think they use it in New Jersey to control deer. They spay female deer at a cost of $1,500 each. Or something like that.
You know the really interesting thing I find is that when we read a story about “youths” fighting in the mall or “youths” playing the knock out game or other similar idiocy, they are frequently referred to here as “ferals” with a comment along the lines of feral youth needing to be put down. We all know what the intent of that kind of comment. Rarely does anyone fret about it. Now, when an actual feral animal, or reasonably thought to be feral because it had no tag or collar, is killed people are going nuts.
She thought she was killing a stray. Pretty simple
I like cats. Pet cats that people keep in their homes.
I detest owners who release their cats at night, sometimes permanently.
I also detest feral cats and whackjobs who think its my job to provide for them.
You don’t like dogs, you arent interested in saving dogs. You hate dogs. You torture dogs.
Since I learned the situation here at my place, I like the feral cats that have started living around and under my house.
Finding out out that the group that works with my neighbor spays them and traps them if something obvious with sickness is going on, made it easier to accept them, but to know that they are treated for fleas with that neck chemical made me actually want them under the house, any fleas that show up from opossums and raccoons, disappear quickly, and I have never seen a mouse, or rattler, or rat here.
She didn’t identify her target which was a pet cat, and close enough for her to kill it with an arrow, it must have been an epic hunt, “here kitty, kitty”.
She is not only wrong there, but she is a vet that claims that she can’t tell the difference between a sweet little pet, and a feral cat, I sure can.
Your posts are getting nuttier and nuttier, you don’t like cats, we get it, but this fired vet is about something else.
It is my understanding that there was no felis catus-domestic cat-in Australia before the early 19th century-they are an introduced species to that place, brought by settlers, along with the disastrously damaging rabbit, before people had enough sense to know not to fool with the natural status quo.
On the North American continent, domestic cats have lots of natural predators-coyotes, wolves, dogs, large snakes, mountain lions, feral hogs/pigs, jaguars, eagles and hawks, etc, etc. Native species of small birds and mammals are not in danger in any way. Australia only has only two of those natural predators-dingos and eagles, so your comparison to what goes on here is apples and oranges.
America is not Australia...
Having a program that “spayed” and neutered feral cats out here has worked fine-in less than 5 years, it has cut the population down to 1/4 of what it was.
Does a private group pay for spaying the deer, like the groups mentioned do for cats?
There was no reason for this vet to think that was a feral cat.
Cats rarely have collars. A person can look at a feral cat and a pet cat and tell the difference, especially when they approach to kill them, and especially when they are a local vet at her own home.
And in the meantime they spread fleas and worms. The office I used to work at was on the edge of a mixed residential and business area. One of the houses that was converted to an office had people that would feed the ferals. There were cats all over the place. Then the business the was there m I ved or went out of business and the place wasn’t rented out right away. Someone started feeding the cats by putting huge piles of kibble in the middle of sidewalks or even the parking lot for our building. And if you had on light colored pants or shoes you could see the fleas jumping on your legs as you walked to and from the parking lot and building.
The feral cats around our home come into our yard and poop and our dogs eat it, regardless of my telling them how disgusting that is and having to take them out in the hose to wash their mouths out so the house doesn’t smell like cat crap.
Was it her on her property or not?
The other poster was not talking about a leg trap.
Thats your choice to buy traps. I chose not to.
So now I’m a liar? suck it
Haha, no rage or anger. I am just really surprised at the reactions of the cat killing as though it were not simply mistaken for a pest (and I’ve spent too much of my lunch break commenting about it). I haven’t read all the threads about the incident, let alone week old postings (I don’t have that kind of time or interest). So please pardon my reactionary response. If she knew it was a pet, killed it then posted about it being a pet, she’s definitely not playing with a full deck.
“That is the funniest one. The county must of got out there quickly for your neighbor. Maybe they just don’t like you. “
You really are a character, just not a coherent classy one.
They put food out and caught the cat. now quit being an ass
so you dont have an argument so you resort to the big lie strategy. pretty typical
I don’t remember, there was a thread on FR about it. As I recall it was taxpayer funded.
Switching to a different argument?
The argument that she killed a pet cat for wondering onto her large property didn’t protect her job in the local vet office, the question is will her license survive, as the board is currently looking into it, and criminal charges are being considered.
“”District Attorney Travis J. Koehn said in a news release that his “office will carefully review this matter, as we do with all investigations forwarded by law enforcement.” The office of the DA, however, could not say when the review will be finished, but a legal assistant working for the DA’s office said that a felony charge may be considered.””
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