[beezdotcom]

I get a kick out of the audacity of cat owners who get upset when their free range kitties wind up missing or dead.

Well, here's why I don't TOTALLY blame them for being upset. The State has fostered a situation (through animal cruelty laws) that allowed pet owners to develop an unreasonable expectation of the State's protection of wayward critters.

If instead, a property owner had all options available to him, from doing nothing to notifying the pet owner to snuffing Fluffy, then you would probably have more polite pet owners, and property owners would probably feel LESS of a repressed urge to snuff Fluffy.

[lormand]

I know a guy who knows a guy who "took care" of 3 feral cats that were allowed free access by the cat's owners to litter his backyard with the feathers of various backyard birds that visited his feeders.