[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.