Posted on 04/26/2016 9:40:48 AM PDT by bgill
Monday, Houston veterinarian Kristen Lindsey appeared in court to address the complaint against her, according to Lorris Jones with the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.
Lindsey is accused of killing a cat in 2015 and then bragging about it on Facebook. The social media post shows Lindsey holding up the cat by the arrow she shot it with. Along with the image of the dead cat, Lindsey posted “My first bow kill, LOL.” The State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners was in attendance at the court. Critics want the board to pull her veterinary license.
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Just because she was not charged for killing the cat does not justify the killing, which you conveniently ignore.
I'm going to say this for the last time, SHE LIED ABOUT THE CAT HAVING RABIES to justify her killing it and was forced to recant her claim in court.
Lets discuss that, shall we? After all, that's what this article is about............So stay on topic!
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Ahhh... keeping a cat inside is cruel. I have never interacted with a house cat that was not a bit nuts or semi-retarded. A cat is a hunting and killing machine, they need to do just that. Many are very good at it and keep the local neighborhood free of various pests, only a subset become bird crazy. Cats that have free run of the world have much more character than house cats, albeit at the risk of much shorter lives.
That is reality. Keeping Mr. Pudding inside is like keeping your 5 year old inside 24/7, it is just plain cruel.
As for a bow shot to the head being cruel....well a hit to the head is instant death. Not cruel. Pretty dammed kind. That is the preferred manner to dispatch any vermin. If the women was deliberately cruel she would have shot it in the side.
I will tell you what is cruel: Ms. Bleeding Heart keeps Mr. pudding alive when he can barely walk, is crying in pain cause she doesn’t have the balls, literally or figuratively to end his suffering. So you see folks that have a cat with a broken back, you can see it, the cat is groaning in pain and they do not kindness to dispatch it right there. No.... they have to take it to the vet...where 3 hours later it gets put down after three hours of increasing pain.
A lot of bleeding hearts are really simply unable to face reality.
By the way projecting a love of dog fighting is completely without merit, some kind of weird projection. Never involved with such nor do I approve. Never said it and never thought it. Grew up with big dogs and loved them dearly. Yet I understand that the day comes when they have to be put down. A quick and surprise death is preferable to a long drawn out one. Animals have a 6th sense about death, they known when you are after them. Many know when they are going to the slaughter. Not kind.
I am not saying the women was justified, I do not know. But neither do many of the other folks condemning the girl. They see arrow head cat and their reflective condemnation rant goes off. A sign of folks that have not faced reality, projecting human attributes on animals, at least to me.
Not for cruelty or meanness, but I am for cold headed reality. a Lot posting here seem to lack any such understanding of life and death.
Rabies is a rare virus that can be transmitted to humans from animals just like any other virus that humans are susceptible to. Open wounds, wiping the eyes with the saliva of the animal, etc....
But most importantly, any animal that is killed because it is suspected of having rabies is required to be turned over to the state for examination to determine that it is rabies infected.......
Rabies is NOT passed through blood contact. The person I was responding to seemed to think that contact with the blood of an infected animal posed a threat. It does not.
Are you saying that if a rabid animal bit me I would not be susceptible to contracting the virus?
Don’t be ridiculous. That is infected saliva coming into contact with your blood and you would absolutely be exposed. If you tended to an infected animal’s cut that was bleeding with bare hands you would be in no danger, assuming the animal did not bite you.
You clearly did not read my whole statement, willfully ignored it or have zero reading comprehension. I suspect willfully ignored is most likely.
“You don’t kill it!”
Well just hypothetically, how do you stop it?
Then lets get back on topic, are you supporting the fact that this vet shot and killed this non feral cat?
And are you still supporting her initial claim that she thought it was rabid and subsequently recanted her claim in court?
That's what this thread is about..........
Beloved pets deserve to be under our control at all times. We are responsible for keeping them from harm of any kind. If my dogs got onto my neighbors property I would hope that my neighbors would not shoot them, I love my dogs, but my neighbors have a duty to protect their property as they see fit.
Pet cats should be secured, just like pet dogs. I don’t want my neighbors’ dogs pooping on my property. I don’t want their cats pooping on my property. I don’t want my dogs pooping on their property. It’s common sense and common decency.
Agreed. She changed her story faster than a Muslim. B!tch!
This is a shocking story by any standard. That poor creature died because it trusted humans.
“If you love your cats, keep them indoors.”
My last vet charged me nearly $800 in tests, treatments and follow-up visits for an infection that turned out to be feline leukemia, a disease I had two years previously paid the same vet to vaccinate against. He then charged me another $200 euthanasia and cremation fee.
An hour after I had our cat put down I received an email receipt that started out, "It was so nice seeing you and your furry family member in our office today!"
I'd have rather the vet shot him with a bow and arrow.
So why we're bad-mouthing this vet, I'm thinking of the last one that I used.
Stray cats are a nuisance. Those who would harm this woman for killing a stray cat are evil.
Question: The time you killed the cat, did you think it had rabies?
Lindsey: No.
Question: Do you think now that the cat had rabies?
Lindsey: I don’t know.
Question: Tell me a little bit about your educational background with rabies.
Lindsey: My educational background with rabies, for one, what we learned in school, which is consistent with what everyone learns in school. And secondly, that which I learned working for Washington Animal Clinic, which is that Washington County and Austin County have very high rabies rates, one of the highest incidence as far as counties occur in the state, as far as I know, that is why Washington County requires a one-year annual rabies vaccination as opposed to a three-year rabies vaccination, which would be appropriate in other areas such as Wyoming.
Question: But you didn’t believe that this cat was rabid?
Lindsey: Not necessarily, no.
Question: So you didn't submit this animal for testing?
Lindsey: No.
Question: Did you take any precautions related to rabies with this cat?
Lindsey: I wear gloves when I dispose of them.
Question: Why did you wear gloves?
Lindsey: Because he was a foul-smelling animal infested with fleas.
Question: Did you wear gloves because you thought the cat was rabid?
Lindsey: No.
What is your point? I’m sure the “foul smelling animal infested with fleas” was dearly loved by his owners, who let him live his life as a foul smelling animal infested with fleas. That’s the part that sounds like cruelty to me. Because living with the constant itch of flea bites is a wonderful life, isn’t it?
Yes it is, that's the excuse she gave for killing it because she had absolutely no other justification. Especially since the clinic she worked for subscribes to TNR...Trap Neuter and Release......
You don't have to use it for target practice.
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