Lame assed excuses for the creatins is NOT going to get them off. They don't keep birds and they bragged about poisoning the animals to other neighbors. These people
are sick ... and so is ANYONE who would condone what they did. The law does NOT recognize domestic cats as 'predatory animals WHO KILL LIVESTOCK" Skunks and raccons are protected species and poisoning them is also ILLEGAL.
In America, juries decide those things, not the plaintiffs. Let us know how it turns out.
I went back and read what the excerpt that you posted. That's not what it says. It says "predatory animals or livestock-killing dogs" and does not say that the predatory animals have to prey on livestock. It says dogs have to be preying on livestock to be covered under the exception to be poisoned. All other predatory animals are fair game as long as the sign-posting requirement is met. Did they post any signs?