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It's not a matter of rights for animals....they have no rights....it's a matter US HUMANS being decent and doing the right thing....and blowing them away is not the right thing.

If the lady didn't take sick cats to the vet, I agree that she should be charged. And I can't believe that the you or the cops had the right to blow these cats away instead of calling the proper authorities to properly euthanize them. Now THAT would be spreading some disease around. Sounds like a dangerous backwards town.
I think the situation could of been handled differntly if just for your kids sake. I'm sorry they got bit, but it didn't have to turn into a KILL THE CATS occasion. Now your kids will be afraid of them and will believe it's ok to shoot them because they have no home or are sick.
PS...some feral cats ARE friendly.

You and I are philosophically divided by a mindset. You might "LIVE" in the country. But we live "IN" the country.

You think we like killing things? There's no joy in killing things. A person who enjoys killing has a serious problem. Before the Deputies from Animal Control starting shooting cats, even I wondered if they couldn't trap, or dart them or something. I know one of the Animal Control Deputies, and he looked at me and said, "Now you know it's just me and him covering the entire county (pointing at his partner). Do YOU want to trap them?"

Yes. Shooting them was the right thing. The ones that weren't dead were dying, and those that weren't dying were too wild to approach. We did end up with two kittens from the whole dreadful ordeal, which tested positive for feline leukemia at their first vet visit, and died less than a year later because of it.

Quit talking about my kids like you know them. You DON'T. Two weeks ago we birthed our first goat kids of this kidding season, and lost one. It was a breach presentation and died from stress we think. Try as we did, we couldn't revive it, and it was difficult for all of us to deal with. My daughter and wife both cried as we looked at the lifeless little buck who grew inside of his dam only to be killed during delivery...and then for us not to be able to revive it. But, last season we had a "smallish" doe with a stuck kid and my daughter was the only one with a small enough hand and arm to reach in and turn it. We saved two doe kids because of her and were overjoyed.

I'm telling you these things because life is tough lady. We take the good with the bad. Sometimes we save things, sometimes we simply can't..things die and sometimes things have to be killed.

I don't hate feral cats, nor do I take any great pleasure in killing them. But I understand them for what they are...destructive, disease carriers. It's not right that somebody dropped them off out near where we live, and it's not right that people such as our neighbors permit them to reproduce prolifically without proper care. But such is life. The end result was STILL that I had a serious feral cat problem. Neither you nor anybody else is qualified to criticize me about how I handled it, or tell me what a bad example I was to my children, or how they're going to grow up being torturers and killers of animals.

Give me a freaking break.