Posted on 01/16/2010 9:25:57 AM PST by JoeProBono
This is Timothy the Cat and his story has captivated viewers for weeks on our web channel. Sadly Timothy the Cat died from his injuries after he was found glued to a Minnesota highway. Now a reward for information on the crime has climbed to almost $10,000.
Timothy was found glued to a highway in late December. He was taken in by volunteers with Second Chance Rescue, but sadly he died a few days later. This past Saturday, an anonomous man from Yankton gave $1,000 to be used for reward money. Since then, volunteers say the donations have been rolling in both from South Dakota and Minnesota.
"Putting a 7 month-old kitten glued to a highway when cars are speeding bythat cat had to be terrifedthat bothers me. Timothy was a very friendly cat and very easy to get attached to, so it was sad to watch him go downhill so quickly and hopefully we can find who did it and hold them accountable for it," said Rosey Quinn of Second Chance.
If you have information about this crime contact Second Chance Rescue in Sioux Falls.
Wasn't sure what you meant, then I started thinking....
Glue the perp to the dead cat, then give the cat a decent burial. (or cremation)
>>Smack the $hit out of them...they earned it.<<
I agree. It looks like we both favor corporal punishment.
Thank you for posting about this miracle.
No I meant the perps together.
A post said “what is its a couple of ten year olds”?
Thats who should be glued together.
The reality is if it is kids, take them behind the wood shed and put the fear of God in them.
>>This kind of cruelty is a sign of mental illness. Its a warning that something is very wrong and it needs to be followed up. Society has a right to protect itself from those that lack empathy or compassion.<<
I disagree with the first sentence, agree with the second, and sort of agree with the third. It’s because I have grown up both in the city and on and around farms/ranches. The two areas promote a very, VERY different approach to the empathy one has towards animals.
Many people who grow up in the city and only see animals as pets or the “disney” episodes showing how cute Racoons are usually tend to give animals strong human attributes. For such a person to do this to a cat would be unthinkable. And a person raised in this environment that would do something like this would be suspected (and maybe rightly so) of the very mental illness you suggest.
However, a person raised on a farm may have such a low respect for the “feelings” of any animal that they could do such a thing just to “watch what happens” and yet never, in their wildest dreams, consider any such cruelty to a human. They just see animals more like “trees”. A person of this type may not be mentally ill but could actually be acting out against the owner of the cat who they may have perceived (rightly or wrongly) to have wronged them. Bad behavior, no doubt, but not the psychopathic behavior many suggest.
To that vein, I know a “farmer” who is one of the nicest, compassionate, men you will ever meet. He is a missionary to Africa and Haiti. Yet, a month after his daughter was born, his 1 year old dog angrily bit at him. His solution? He got the rifle, plugged the dog, and threw the carcass off the edge of the property into a holler for the turkey buzzards. Case closed.
No, he is not insane. He just knows the difference between a human and a dog, and is able to assess risk to his human daughter.
This is often a clash of American subcultures and the sensibilities they foment as anything else. Country people and city people just act bad in different ways.
FWIW, I went out with my son in law and one of his high school buddies in South Dakota one winters day to participate in what is universally considered “fun” in that area. We drive out on one of the dirt roads surrounding all the flooded land and, using a 223 rifle with a scope, and without leaving the vehicle, shoot muskrats swimming between bushes. Then you drive off to get the next one. I asked them later how many each had shot in his lifetime.
They figured about 800 each. No, neither of them are crazy. Both very good family men. They just clearly know the difference between a nuisance rodent and a human being, or even a house pet.
He had no car and lived in a shack, as a teenager. He walked to school every day. He was Captain of the football team at 5'9" and maybe 180 lbs. He was just a tough dude. He was like that all his life, but still a very nice man.
Once he said, "I just don't understand how anybody could not like a cat.
That gif is hilarious!
I'm from the country and we don't torture cats and dogs.
And people living on farms don't learn to harm animals for the fun of it. This was an act of cruelty with no reason other than to enjoy the suffering of a living thing. Oh and don't smear farmers again. I live in farm country and they are concerned for their animals. They are not purposely cruel for pleasure.
It's easy:
>>I’m from the country and we don’t torture cats and dogs.<<
It is not common, true. However, it is not all that uncommon either. The worst I ever did was shoot a robin with a bb gun when I was in 6th grade. I looked down at the pathetic little thing with blood oozing out of a hole in it’s chest and felt awful. I thought about it a lot. I saw the pointlessness of it and never did it again. Interestingly, it was not for the sake of the robins that I may or may not have killed. It was for my own sake.
In other words, it was in the spirit of the same reason I stay away from pr0n.
Then you can expect them to be voting Democrat in eight years.
I grew up on a ranch and have handled firearms since I was about 4. I slaughtered my first Spanish Meat Goat at about 9. The Mexican foreman in charge of my dad’s ranch showed me a method more humane of killing those goats than slitting their throats. It was letting them stand as you held them in place between your legs, then stabbing them in the chest right below the neck, then slicing down. It would cleave their heart in two and they would be dead before the knife was even extracted.
I have shot hundreds of ground squirrels with my Mini-14, bag my limit of deer every year. Have shot coyotes that have tried to get our chickens. There is a very big difference in killing animals to eat, for sport or culling and doing it humanely and doing it just to be cruel.
>>I live in farm country and they are concerned for their animals. They are not purposely cruel for pleasure.<<
I agree. I am not smearing farmers. They DO know the difference between animals and human beings much better than those raised exclusively in “the city”. That’s my point.
My point is that, although it is always “acting badly” when someone tortures a helpless animal, it would more represent “mental illness” in a city dweller than a Farm/ranch dweller. The two just see animals differently.
In all this, I am talking about men. Women are different. Their maternal instinct is a very powerful deterrent. Their whole world view is different than that of men. And I suspect that the vast majority of those that respond so strongly on this site against these sort of acts are women. And that is how it should be.
One other thing: There is a HUGE difference between a kitten and a cat, regarding “awareness”.
I completely agree with everything you said.
Maybe the difference is that I see all of these events in the context of why Jesus had to die on the cross for every single one of us. We all have our personal “demons” and are quick to condemn the demons of others while ignoring or minimizing our own.
Torturing animals is bad behavior. And the biggest problem I have with it is what it says about the person doing it. They obviously have some issues, be they with the world or the owner of the animal they tortured. It is, after all, a VERY effective way to “get back” at a person.
IOW, this is ALL about the damage done to, or being done to, the person torturing the animal. That is where my compassion is directed. I could not care less about the animal itself. It is a natural resource.
I have no idea how to deal with such ignorance on your part. Nor your flailing for points only to contradict yourself. I see plenty of men, real men, on this thread that disagree with you.
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