Facebook Is Not Letting the Story of the Vet Who Killed a Cat With a Bow and Arrow Go

Texas Monthly ^ | April 22, 2015 | Dan Solomon

[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:

[ansel12]

Here is the cat and it’s owners, as best as everyone can tell.

The owners would have picked up the cat themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPiqSYgPuE

[Roos_Girl]

They are the same reasons I don’t want a strange dog roaming on my property!

[grimalkin]

There may be something to that. The best vets I’ve ever used have been male. The female ones always seemed cold. This is coming from a woman, btw.

[Texan5]

I’ve never lived in Florida-only visited, but it hardly seems possible that an area with a city the size of Tampa there is not at least one privately funded animal welfare group-there are a lot more people and $$$ there than here in a rural area of Texas that is broke because the snowbirds don’t have the money to winter here now...

[ansel12]

Oh, well this particular cat might have been adopted, at the expense of another cat, and the hundreds of cats that are in shelters across the country because people can’t be responsible for them and let them wander all over the damn place.

See post 221. I don't know why you refuse to think that those people would have picked up the cat themselves.

[Roos_Girl]

I never said that her employer wasn’t within his right for firing her. I said losing her license to practice anywhere is ridiculous.

[PA Engineer]

You’ve never proved anything. Except now you’ve proven yourself a liar and a vile human.

You said you wanted the county to give you a trap, because THEY ARE SO EXPENSIVE. I showed you a two trap deal for $39.99. That was the first bust of your fanciful story.

I called you out for lying and making up BS. You called me a vile human being for catching you in a lie.

Look in the mirror. That is where your hate should reside.

People like yourself always hate everyone else for their own personal miserable existence. Maybe if you man up and take responsibility, you will begin to be happy and not so hateful.

I'm still waiting for a link to your out of the butt made up HUGE ROUND NUMBERS.

[1035rep]

“If it was someone’s pet they should have kept it inside.”

If I catch the cat next door that keeps going underneath my boat cover and peeing in my boat, it’s going to be it’s last rendezvous in my yard. The smell in the carpet is beyond nasty. I’d like to smack it’s owner a good one too!

[PA Engineer]

Seriously, I never thought I’d see a farmer get blamed for predators eating their livestock around here.

You said you lived in Tampa.

[ansel12]

LOL, there is a world of difference between a cat being outside, and loose dogs, and the threat of being killed by a dog, and of dog packs.

Joggers don't carry weapons to protect themselves from cats, and even then, sometimes lose the battle.

IE:"Police news: Couple reach plea deal in dog-mauling death of jogger in Lapeer County"

[DouglasKC]

I dont’ get animal nuts. There’s no problem with animals shelters killing millions of animals a year. But boy, let someone kill a trublesome animal around their house and the crap hits the fan.

[rlmorel]

As much as I dislike this person handling pets, I agree with you.

I don’t know what that license review process is like in Veterinary practice, so I can’t comment on that.

I misunderstood your post, sorry.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Shots last for a certain number of years anyhow. You can say you think you have a recent one.

[Roos_Girl]

Did she know they were the cats owners? Had she tried to contact them in the past? Were they ignoring the issue? I don’t know, do you?

I’m not saying that there wasn’t a better way for her to handle the problem. But, I believe she was well within her property rights to take care of the issue as she did. Is she a jerk? Maybe. Or maybe she was just fed up with the problems that a stray cat visiting your property can cause.

[Lonely Are The Brave]

Well, that’s not imply it’s only cats that overpopulate. Dogs can be an enormous problem, too. Dog chit on the lawn. On the sidewalks. On walking trails. Can be vicious and kill other dogs. Yet, if one of my neighbor’s Beagle is on the front lawn tomorrow morning, I’ll pet him and wish him a good day. Love dogs and cats and have both in my home.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How about telling the owner where his cat has been going? Assuming you have some evidence that it IS his cat that has made the messes and not some other cat or other animal?

[ansel12]

Why ask all those questions? This isn’t about her knowing the owners, or an “issue”.

She has already been fired, let’s just hope for some criminal charges.

[rlmorel]

Well, cats don’t generally form into packs when they are feral, but dogs sure do, and I speak from experience.

I was pursued by a huge pack of feral dogs when I was 11 years old, and I can tell you, it scared the hell out of me. I thought I was dead meat. There looked to be about 20-30 of them of all sizes, some big. It was on a military base in Japan, where people just let their dogs go instead of having them put down.

I love dogs, but I suspect you get a bunch of them together living off the land, and they probably revert to a semi-to-undomesticated state to the same degree cats seem to.

[Roos_Girl]

Agreed mostly. I don’t want stray animals in general on my property. If I know who the owner is I will call them to come get their animal. A couple of times I have kenneled a couple of dogs that actually dug under the fence to get onto our property until the owner could come get them. What do you do with an animal that has no owner? There are several choices, not every choice is right for every person.

[Roos_Girl]

Because YOU are implying that she knew the cat, knew who owned the cat and killed it anyway because she’s nuts. And maybe that is the truth. Or maybe my explanation for what she did is the truth. Or maybe it’s neither. Your explanation, at worst, makes her a jerk.