PET ATTACK: Gun curb call after cat shot

Peterborough Today.com (UK) ^ | 8/11/05 | n/a

[kiriath_jearim]

To digress somewhat, isn't there a rock song from a few years ago about somebody shooting a rooster? Was it by Alice In Chains?

[Manic_Episode]

Giving Copenhagen to cats should be illegal too.

[BenLurkin]

More hysteria.

If there really is such a thing as global warming -- it must be caused by the heat cooking off of the heads of these hysterical henny pennys.

[Brilliant]

Sounds like these "youngsters" should not be entrusted with guns.

[Manic_Episode]

Not that I would know anything about that.

[taxesareforever]

Why? Have scientific tests been done to show it is bad for them?

[AppyPappy]

Serial killers and the like generally start with animals.

[Phantom Lord]

To digress somewhat, isn't there a rock song from a few years ago about somebody shooting a rooster? Was it by Alice In Chains?

Yes, but the song was about vietnam if memory serves me right.

[BenLurkin]

Yes.

And I love cats.

But arrest the kid and punish him (or her).

Why make everybody with a BB gun pay the price for one moron's actions?

[newgeezer]

I wonder if Jenny had wandered off the property and thus became a feral cat.

[Phantom Lord]

Why do cat owners feel it is their right to let their cats roam the neighborhood freely? You don't see dog owners doing this (not at the rate cat owners do). We put up fences to keep them in! (though that wouldn't work with cats).

Keep your pets indoors and off my yard!

[trubluolyguy]

"YEAH, THEY'VE COME TO SNUFF THE ROOSTER HEY YEAHHHHHH!"

[goldstategop]

I hold no brief for the morally compromised cretins at PETA. But I do wish a Viking Kitty ZOT on any one who's cruel enough to shoot a cat!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[absolootezer0]

was the cat collared and licensed? or was it like most cats that wander around all the time and can be easily taken as alley cats? was it perhaps causing harm to something? destroying property?
i find people who let their cats wander around destroying propety irresponsible. there are a bunch of cats in my neighborhood that like to poop everywhere and dig up flowerbeds.

[randog]

Yes, "The Rooster" by Alice In Chains, but it was a song about the guitarist's dad's adventures in Vietnam. The Viet Cong tried to kill "the Rooster", but he's a BAMF and "he ain't gonna die".

[varyouga]

OMG! This is series and hugh! We must outlaw airguns and cats! It must be done "For The Children^TM"

[FearlessFreep]

Must have been pupmed up to the max. The cat was proabably on someones brand new vehicle.

[kiriath_jearim]

In answer to myself, it is an Alice In Chains song, i.e. "Rooster". Lyric sample:

"Ain't found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere

Here they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster
You know he ain't gonna die

Walkin' tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death
My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath
Oh god please won't you help me make it through"

[SampleMan]

Sounds like these "youngsters" should not be entrusted with guns.

Four cats running around in town. Crap all over, smell of cat urine all over, foot prints all over the neighbors cars. So I wouldn't bet the farm on it being a "youngster". Maybe $20, but not the farm. My guess is that the city ordnances don't allow the cats to be outside without a leash, but the reporter didn't cover that angle. There are certainly better ways to deal with neighbors that let animals run wild than to shoot the animals though.