Posted on 04/18/2015 1:39:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Kristen Lindsey, 31, of Brenham posted a photo holding up what she described as a dead feral tomcat shot in Austin County, but there are reports since that it was a neighborhood family pet named Tiger.
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The photo has since been removed and her Facebook account canceled, although copies have widely circulated on the Internet. Her original post with the photo read: "My first bow kill, lol. The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's head! Vet of the year award ... Gladly accepted," KWTX-TV reported.
Austin County Sheriff Jack Brandes said deputies were investigating the incident and would be talking with prosecutors about the possibility of charges.
"This kind of stuff shouldn't happen in our society," Brandes said. "It's a very sad thing. Hopefully we will get to the bottom of it and get the truth, 100 percent truth, and get it to the DA and put it in his hands if it needs to go any further."
Lindsey planned to meet with authorities next week, accompanied by an attorney, Houston TV station KTRK reported.
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My personal view is, an outdoor cat is an abandoned cat and is fair game no matter how you want to kill it within local/legal means.
This vet deserves a medal.
Hey, cat people. Your cats are a major non-native invasive species, are responsible for the collapse of song bird populations (an subsequent increases in insect-borne diseases, especially arboviruses) everywhere they’ve been introduced, they CAUSE asthma (look it up) they carry a disturbing variety of diseases they can and do pass to humans: bartonella, yersinia, lyme, rabies, cryptosporidium and many more.
I love cats - I can never eat a whole one though.
I care for people more.
Keep your cats inside.
” I dont see the linkage between a well fed pet and a feral cat.”
Cats attack moving things, it is their nature. Also in their nature is toying with a captured prey animal, letting it run, and catching it again, and again, and again.
Cats practice catch and No Release.
A case can be made that feral and/or un-confined cats are why man invented .22 ammo.
What we call house cats/feral cats are not “natural” to Europe or America.
They were imported, and like all too many aliens, went rogue.
God forbid you should be inconvenienced if a cat poops in your yard (cats cover their poop by the way so that’s bs). Because, after all, it’s all about you. Screw any homeless animal that needs help.....you’ll just kill it.
That’s right because people dump cats and because they were meant to be outside to begin with. So, a stray lost homeless community cat walks or God forbid poops in YOUR backyard...the horror. Instead of helping it, just follow your conscience and kill it. Twisted heart. Sad soul.
Only when they shit on it.
Fawn is just ‘fawning’ again.
It has long been known that well fed house cats will attack and kill smaller animals for amusement, often letting the wounded prey ‘escape’ and then pouncing on it again. This sadistic behavior continues until either the prey dies or the cat gets bored and kills the prey animal.
“By the way, Birds carry over 60 diseases to your backyard. Yet, you dont care about that?”
TRUE DAT!
If it were not psitacosis, America’s pigeon population would be much smaller.
I’m glad you found a Vet.
We shot the few that got out of hand. We paid our Vet very well to take care of horses and cattle.
I don’t think he would have driven 60 plus miles to spay a few cats and if he did it would have been very expensive.
another persons rights end a foot from my nose and at my property line
“dogs aren’t allowed to roam free, why should cats?”
Maybe dogs aren’t “allowed” to roam free, but many do. In our neck of the woods in Tennessee, pet owners are the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve lived all over the country including Alaska and Hawaii. We’re in a “good”, semi-rural neighborhood and dogs are everywhere.
We have cats (feral, rescued, spayed, tamed) and they’re 100% indoor cats. We have to contend with neighbor dogs’ feces all over the yard and roads. (Did you know that dogs, as well as cats, poop?) Although we don’t have any, we love dogs and one of our biggest fears is that we’ll back a car over one of them one day. The owners are dispicable to risk their pets’ lives the way they do.
You need some help. You think my hunting dogs can’t smell a pile of cat crap that’s been “buried”? You think I should have to smell cat urine sprayed? As I said, the cat rescue wouldn’t take them. I guess it’s kinder to let them get eaten by coyotes or starve to death or any other number of diseases or horrible endings.
And yes, on MY property it is all about what I want and that includes keeping my own animals communicable disease free. YOU can do whatever YOU like on YOUR property. If you lived close I’d be happy to drop every stray animal at your house for you to take care of.
Why shouldn’t cat owners be required to keep their cats on their own property?
I’m with you. Several times my cat will catch a mouse or lizard and I make her drop it and the critter goes on its way. She is skilled in mouthing her prey instead of biting it.
Feral cats are to house cats as feral pigs
are to house pigs...
Well, she won't be getting one. Is aggravated animal cruelty a felony in Texas?
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