Police zap cat Authorities use Taser to subdue animal

The Telegraph ^ | 2-28-2005 | MAGGIE BORMAN

[camle]

throwing water on fighting cats usually works....

[Smogger]

Well gee, if it was that severely injured it sounds shooting it was the humane thing to

That musta been a helluva cat fight.

[Smogger]

dog fights too.

[Vicomte13]

Wait.
They pepper-sprayed it.
Then Tasered it.
Then took it out of town and SHOT it?
What the Hell...?

This does not seem normal.

[ko_kyi]

Wonder how the kitties like being on the other end of the ZOT?

[basil]

I think shooting the injured cat was a humane way of ending its torment.

[Beaker]

disturbing kitty ping

[GovernmentShrinker]

One Gillespie resident who heard of the incident was appalled that the officers used a Taser on a small animal and that the animal control officer had ordered the animal shot rather than taken to a veterinarian for either medical treatment or humane euthanasia.

If an animal is severely injured and in pain, shooting it on the spot is a lot more humane than delaying its demise by transporting it to a vet for a lethal injection.

For safety reasons, the officers took the cat outside the city limits and shot it

Unfortunately, this demonstration of hoplophobia ensured that the shooting was no more humane than the trip to the vet for an injection would have been.

[MineralMan]

"This does not seem normal.
"

Cat fights can be very vicious and some cats won't give up until the other cat stops moving.

I've found, though, that a five-gallon bucket of cold water dumped on the pair of fighting cats generally ends the fight immediately.

[camle]

i think that if they did all that to my thug cat, Alpo, it would only make him mad.

Alpo thrashes other cats, squerrils, dogs, raccoons, small children, large children and adults. He plays chicken with cars and wins.

[DannyTN]

I wonder if the taser took out the eye?

[camle]

after reading the article, I tend to agree - the cat was severely injured, and the officers couldn't get it down. They tasered it so they could examine it, and after discovering that it's injuries were that bad, they put it out of its' misery.

that said I do wonder why if they were able to drive it to a remote area, why couldn't they drive it to the vet for a more humane end?

[OXENinFLA]

[rellimpank]

--the five gallons of water also serves to separate the golfers that get the zipper stuck on the back of the belt--it has to be thrown by a large black Lab, however---

[Mears]

Your cat sounds like one my mother-in-law had.

Big male tiger---would disappear for a week or so,come home,eat,sleep for 24 hours(behind the old stove),and off he'd go again.

He always came home with some type of injury but survived quite a few years.

[Tom602]

"We do have leash laws in Gillespie, and I hope pet owners will make sure their pets have city tags and that their pets are kept contained or on a leash so incidents like these won’t happen."

Anyone here ever tried to LEASH a cat? Mine won't even wear a collar.

I'm suprised that they didn't take the cat to the vet and let him/her make the call on weather the cat was worth saving.

It must not have been hurt TOO badly because it managed to clime into the rafters (EVEN WITH ONE EYE RIPPED OUT). Sounds like this cat had a bunch of fight left. Poor kitty.

The animal control person sounds like a typical Demonrat.

[unbalanced but fair]

I thought of that too. Pretty small body for the Taser to impact and from a good distance{the rafters.}

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

LOL! I was thinking the same thing...