Posted on 01/31/2014 2:44:12 PM PST by don-o
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -
A Rutherford County elementary school teacher faces animal cruelty charges for shooting her neighbor's cat.
Katherine Duke, a fourth grade teacher at Wilson Elementary School in Murfreesboro, admitted to police she shot the cat Thursday afternoon because she was tired of it using her children's sandbox as a litter box.
The cat's owner rushed it to a veterinarian where the animal had to be euthanized.
Duke, 41, was charged with animal cruelty and booked into the Rutherford County.
She has since been released on a $2,250 bond and is scheduled to appear in court March 4.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjhl.com ...
A responsible Mom has a cover over a sandbox when the kid’s not using, under supervision, anyway.
Animals that go where they aren't wanted and cause damage are called vermin. They are generally disposed of.
Keep your pets under control and on your property. It's the responsible, conservative thing to do.
/johnny
Get a rope.
I don’t have neighbors like that, but fast cars and wild animals—so I keep my kitty safe.
What is FR—the global site for cat murderers?
Why?
We have never had a sandbox, so I wouldn’t know. We did live in sand land for a lot of years though. It would’ve been hard to cover the whole backyard.
My neighbor, irresponsible cat owner, allowed her cats to kill baby Cardinals in their nests, dragging little bodies to our front porch and using two neighbors' children's sand boxes, claiming that "that's just what cats do," was told that perhaps her cat just might eat something that was "dangerous to his health."
Count me in. Shot cats are polite cats.
In another story, the cat owner says the teacher never mentioned that the cat was causing a problem. That doesn’t look good at all for the teacher.
When I was a kid, someone shot my cat. The cat managed to drag himself home where we took him the vet to be put down.
I do not know who did it, but I will neither forgive nor forget.
“A responsible Mom has a cover over a sandbox when the kid’s not using, under supervision, anyway.”
Exactly!
More in another article - the teacher did indeed shoot the cat with a pellet gun, as some surmised on this thread.
MPD: Rutherford County teacher admits to shooting neighbor’s cat
If I were the cat’s attorney I would have her charged with entrapment. The cat just couldn’t help himself.
I have a 1K FPS .22 scoped pellet rifle that will hold a half inch group at fifty yards. It punches hole through a 3/4” pine board all day long. I bought it and put it together as a cat/raccoon/skunk/stray dog gun. It pops when the pellet breaks the sound barrier but as long as I’m shooting out of my garage you can’t hear it from a hundred feet. All my neighbors are more than a half mile down the road I don’t have a stray pet problem.
It was cruelty. It wasn’t a clean shot.
I do love cats. I would have been traumatized as a child if one of our neighbors would have offed any of the neighbor kitties. My daddy did not like pets, so I played with the neighbors’ animals. The neighborhood cats must’ve had their own special poop zones because I never saw them pooping in anyone’s yard. The dogs were a different story. They kind of went wherever they wanted. No leash laws. Great neighborhood with a lot of wonderful people. And a lot of wonderful animals.
What's she gonna say? "Oh, she told me a hunnert times to keep my cat off her property."
Because a sandbox in a regularly landscaped area is an attractive nuisance for every dog or cat or who knows what passing by. You even have bird droppings from overhead.
From another article:
MPD: Rutherford County teacher admits to shooting neighbor's cat
In a residential area, a responsible cat owner keeps his or her cat indoors, so it isn't killing songbirds in my yard or defecating in my yard.
I don't leave my dogs' droppings in a cat owner's yard.
Now excuse me while I go clean my litterbox.
You have every right to think what you want but not a single right to impose your cat on me. We live out in the country and people are always dumping cats off out here. No problem for me at all. What I don't get the coyotes and bobcats do. Which way is better for these beloved and deserted kittys?
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