Posted on 04/18/2015 1:30:14 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
A Texas veterinarian was fired after a Facebook photo showing her with her "first bow kill" -- a local cat -- went viral.
Dr. Kristen Lindsey bragged online that she killed a "feral" cat in her neighborhood in Brenham. She posted a photo on Wednesday, which shows her holding up the dead cat by an arrow protruding from its head, according to KBTX.
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She thought she would be applauded for this, thats why she posted it and bragged about it
So you plead to being an idiot, and what does “sleek wildcats” have to with shooting pet cats?
You really want to admit that you can’t identify that a cat is feral or not?
You really want to pretend that veterinarians and animal control people can’t either?
Thank you, Slings. Agreed.
The woman who shot the cat is a veterinarian. She could not tell that it was not feral (if indeed it was not). The cat did not have a collar. Feral cats should be destroyed—they present harm to local fauna and risk of disease. If you don’t understand that, you are part of the problem.
Yep. She screwed up big time.
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Killing neighborhood pets and wild game are similar?
Got turkeys? They eat the quail.
The woman who killed the cat had to know that it was a pet and not feral, and she is now an unemployed veterinarian, and is now being investigated by the Sheriff’s department.
You shouldn’t be proud of your inability to identify a feral cat.
Sorry, but are you psychic? Were you inside the vet’s head at the time she shot this stray cat? It doesn’t have a collar, as is obvious from the pic.
People like you whom have never lived on a farm and consequently never have had to deal with feral animals should stick to topics you know, such as strolling down the block to Starbuck’s, manicures, and shopping at Neiman Marcus.
The vet knew, has been fired, and is currently under investigation by law enforcement.
And yes I know feral cats, and you obviously know nothing about me.
Are you a female?
We don’t really have the particulars of this cat. Many people have cats they consider pets but let them out at night and back in come morning. Not much difference in this and a feral cat. Feral cats, dogs and hogs are a big problem. I’m against killing pets but I’m for people keeping them up and when they’re abandoned the problems they create are more than just reproducing.
Was the cat on her property?
If so too bad for kitty.
Still should shut up.
I was born and raised on a small SW Texas ranch owned and worked by two generations of our family-it is worked by three now. No one killed feral cats then-they were fed so that they stayed in and around the barn to keep rats and mice out of the livestock feed so that poison was not used. And loose pet dogs and cats became predator dinners, just like they do now.
I still live in the country-always will-and people here don’t kill feral cats, still keep them for rodent control-it is safer than poisons around livestock and feed.
Cats kill birds-always have-but they don’t fly, so there are still plenty of birds-I feed them all-and I haven’t heard that any birds are going extinct from cat predation. I’ve never shopped at Needless Markup, I do my own nails and I make my own coffee-organic Columbian blend...
>> People like you whom have never lived on a farm and consequently never have had to deal with feral animals should stick to topics you know bla bla bla yadda yadda bla bla bla
I live on a farm. We have lots of what you call “feral animals” all around. Feral mice, feral skunks, feral rabbits, feral bunnies, feral buzzards, feral rats. Feral snakes, feral lizards, feral turtles. Feral armadillos.
Did I leave anything out? Probably. Oh yeah, feral birds of all sorts. Feral coyotes. Feral frogs.
We (me and my neighbors) among us have a variety of cats that come and go. Some are feral, some are pets. They are all allowed outside; we don’t have dipshit Sierra Club bird-o-phile neighbors who get the vapors over outdoor cats. (Suggesting that cats aren’t allowed outdoors would bring howls of laughter from us simple “farm folk”. That’s city nonsense.)
Simpleton that I am, I kind of lump the animals out here into two classes: the ones that are troublesome to me, and the ones that are beneficial.
Feral cats are on the “beneficial” side. They’re attractive. They’re amusing. They help take care of some of the troublesome animals (I am not partial to mice and rats). They don’t bark.
There; that’s what I know. Do I know enough about “feral” to be allowed to have an opinion on this topic on your narrow-minded little cat hating personal planet?
I live next to the feral cat lady, and much of their life is spent here in my yard and living under my house because they feel uncomfortable around her, and only go there at meal time and for water. (I don’t get involved with them, no food or water). I guess they are semi feral now, you can’t approach them, but they will sometimes sleep on my porch and only run if I open the door, although they often act calm and stay in place if I turn to go away from them, they seem to feel safer at my place, and the hanging out on my porch seems to be the feral cat version of trying to adopt a human, as you know that tame cats often do, tame cats will often have a second, or perhaps even more homes where they get treated as a visiting/part time pet.
At first I wondered if they would be a problem, but since the woman and some agency feeds them, and traps them for spaying and flea treatments, I see them as an asset.
The cats help make the Opossums uncomfortable at my place, and the flea killing chemical on them attracts whatever fleas show up from Opossums, and kills them. I think they also drive off the rattlers, and cut down on the noisy birds.
They work as mobile flea traps, and snake removers, Opossum harassers, and I have never seen a mouse or rat here, and they will drive off those noisy birds, because the roof and trees are all convenient to the the cats.
Agreed!
Accidents happen. Pets get loose. But to classify it as a feral cat when it hadn't been seen around the neighborhood more than a day or so is the height of stupidity.
Shot with bow and arrow by heartless jackasses.
I wish many cat owners understood this!
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