Calicoes are very sweet cats. How could anyone do such a thing.
Posted on 12/29/2005 7:42:10 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
Cat Thrown Off Bridge With 16-Pound Rock Rescued Firefighter Takes Cat Home To Daughter
POSTED: 7:13 am EST December 29, 2005
MISSOULA, Montana -- There has been a happy ending on what started as a case of animal cruelty.
Passers-by spotted the calico house cat Tuesday morning while crossing a footbridge by Montana’s icy Clark Fork River. They called for help, and Missoula firefighters responded. Firefighters lowered a boat onto the ice, and retrieved the soaking-wet cat.
Someone had put the animal in a cage, along with a rock weighing about 16 pounds, and tossed it over the bridge. But instead of landing in the water, the caged cat landed on the ice and bounced several times, coming to a stop in an icy puddle of slush.
It's unclear how long the cat had been there.
Despite its ordeal, one of the cat's rescuers said she was really friendly, and dined on leftover Christmas turkey at the firehouse.
One of the firefighters then took the vet-checked cat home to his daughter. They named their new pet "Lucky." Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
You should never "put down" a perfectly healthy animal just because you don't want it.
There are plenty of options for people who don't want their pets anymore, and no decent vet will agree to put a healthy animal to sleep, ever.
I completely agree with you about "setting it free", though. A domestic animal is not fit for the wild. That is why they are called domestic.
Oh they find the suckers all right. I also have a variety of stragglers each night. Cats I have never seen. They are fat and look great I believe they are owned and come for snacks.
Calicoes are very sweet cats. How could anyone do such a thing.
"She is a cat magnet."
Funny. My house is a cat magnet only with the poles reversed. Cats never come around.
Probably because my dog loves to chase them. He never bites them or kills them, he just wants to chase them.
Happy ending ping.
You prefer a burlap sack and some stones?
Yes, there are many, many cat lovers in FReepland! ... and, you remind me of my son-in-law, who also doesn't "particularly adore cats", either. I noticed that he spent his entire Christmas visit this year ... sitting on the floor ... playing with our adorable kitten! ... LOL ... perhaps there is hope yet!
Who decided to weigh the rock? Why would they do it?
People are starting to notice what feral cats can do to wildilfe in North America as well. Earlier this year, the state of Wisconsin floated an idea to have a hunting season for feral cats (or maybe it was to hire hunters - one or the other), because the cats are decimating local bird populations.
At any rate there was such a storm of public protest that Wisconsin dropped the plan like a hot potato. The media ran story after story about how the state was going to let evil hunters gun down Fluffy in the yard in front of the children. Obviously these people have never had any experience with what nasty critters feral cats really are.
"It was a crime scene.
Attempted murder. There are
procedures to use . . ."
"The sorry excuse for a human who did this should be euthanized."
I like your idea better.
> no decent vet will agree to put a healthy animal to sleep, ever.
Sadly, that is exactly what happens at the RSPCA, which is overloaded with unwanted cats. Those that cannot be adopted out get culled.
But that is different than taking it to your vet, saying you don't want it anymore, and the vet killing it.
> But that is different than taking it to your vet, saying you don't want it anymore, and the vet killing it.
Not alot different. Why should the RSPCA and its donors have to bear the cost of getting rid of Fluffy for you? I see that as an owner's cop-out: an easy way out for disposing of unwanted animals. Why should they have to do the dirty work?
The RSPCA are a charity, and every dollar they spend putting down Fluffy is a dollar that could and should have been spent preventing cruelty to animals.
The real answer is not to buy Fluffy in the first place, and to have all cats speyed and neutered, except only those required for breeding.
Amen. But while it is true that the SPCA is a charity, part of their mission is re-homing unwanted animals. It gives loving pets a chance at being adopted, rather than don't want-go kill immediately.
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