You totally missed my sarcasm and humor too. But—to conclude...what a bunch of BS. You just can’t pull out a gun and shoot any animal or bird or whatever in most towns/villages and cities. Maybe you can win your case if your life was in danger like with a killer dog. But if you shot a cat cuz it pooped on your lawn, I believe yer goin to jail for being cruel, heartless, reckless, illegally discharging a firearm and for being an ignorant redneck.
I didn’t detect any humor at all. I detected a whole lot of baiting, but not a drop of humor. I’m tempted to bet you didn’t even crack a smile at it yourself.
But back to the real point: Cat ‘owners’ who let their cats roam the neighborhood are not operating with a proper sense of fairness. They want to be absolved of all responsibility for their cats’ actions while roaming, but they want the felines protected against harm and trapping as though they were their domesticated pets.
I mean, dog owners are required, in many jurisdictions, to carry a pooper scooper or a bag when they walk their dog, and to clean up all the poop their dogs drop while they’re out.
Not so, the cats. They can poop anyplace their little butts desire, which means under my window or in my garden, more often than not.
Hey, if I can’t shoot the little poopers, could I just trap them and take them way out in the country or the woods and let them go? That’s what Animal Control would do with most other wild animals. Just to help them be their wild selves, I’d be willing to use a set of long handled cutters (so I don’t get scratched) to cut their collars off, so they won’t have to be hampered by that noisy old ID tag.
It’s only fair.
;-) [There, that’s your notice I’m kidding a little.]