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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I have a distant relative that feeds and maintains a feral cat colony!
My veterinarian says, one sick feral cat passing through my fenced yard could easily drop bugs that would infect my dogs.
My fence is not that tight, the rabbits need an escape route from my dogs!
I heard about this story, and don’t think I’ll be pinging it as the story is an unmitigated downer. Beyond that, this chickie is a sickie.
Is she holding a bow?...: )
The Amazon women of old had a work around for that problem.
What does matter are the consequences to the people involved and affected.
I love her FB comment when someone asked about her job: "No I did not lose my job. Lol. Psshh. Like someone would get rid of me. I’m awesome!"
Oops.
Boy, what a pile of poop on this thread in regard to the murdered cat. Maybe his owner lets him out or maybe he escaped the house as they sometimes do. I’ve had that happen myself but luckily recovered my kitty quickly. The cat’s accused of having no rabies shot, being unneutered and, by inference, being a bird killer just willy-nilly here. How do you know?
And birds are among cats’ natural prey; that’s how things are. There are still more birds around than there are cats. Complain when cats learn to fly.
Well, collars help prevent arrows to the head...
If you don’t put a rabies tag on your animal, how do you expect anyone else, including Animal Control, to know it’s tame and vaccinated?
You’re right; in our current, feminized culture, people can act in all sorts of obnoxious and irresponsible ways, and then whine and blame others, to the point of gwtting them fired, when things go sideways. And have supporters on Free Republic. Sad. Thank God my parents didn’t raise me like that.
There’s a bow? Hell, it took me several minutes before I even noticed the “GAY TEST” caption.
I have trapped stray cats and called animal control to come pick them up. I have a cat and she stays in the house unlike neighbors that let their cats roam free pooing all over my yard. One week I picked up 15 piles of poo. I’ve had to completely empty and refill the soil in my raised garden beds because cats were digging up my plants and using the garden as a litter box.
LOL, anyone confusing a well kept pet cat for a feral cat would be a total idiot, yet you want to try and convince us that animal control and veterinarians can’t do it.
Lol, you’re absurd.
Jesus-I would not take my pet to that vet if she was the last vet on earth-she would probably put down your ill, beloved pet by using it for archery practice and tell you it was a good thing-I think that woman needs psychotherapy...
The privately funded animal welfare organization out here has had a very good spay/neuter and release program for nearly 15 years, so we don’t have litters of feral kittens anymore-just the occasional dumped pets, which don’t last long outdoors. One of my three shelter cats is a former feral cat-she is too small and tame to have lasted long in the woods-good thing she was rescued and taken in by the shelter people.
This is a rural area, so coyotes, wild hogs and the occasional mountain lion are residents-they are very fond of soft, slow pet cats and smaller dogs-my dog is indoors unless I’m outside with her-this place is fenced. My cats never go out at all-loose pets here are predator take-out meals...
If it’s some nasty feral cat then it’s okay with me. Australia now has a bounty on feral cats as they are killing and eating millions of birds.
Note that some veterinary school applicants end up as physicians; veterinary schools are among the most selective.
And not that many slots ~3000.
I have a feral cat colony. So far this year I have trapped, fixed and released over 30 of them.
Why? Because I live in the city limits and the city won’t allow me to shoot the damned things. Some of my neighbors feel sorry for them and feed them. Plus they eat every bird that lands within a mile.
I did nothing but call animal control for a few years, but they were breeding faster than I could get them picked up. They are like rats. All it takes is one pregnant one and you have a couple dozen a year later.
If I can ever get all of the breeders fixed then maybe I can start getting them under control.
Dunno, apparently that veterinarian couldn’t. I’ve seen sleek wildcats before myself. If the cat doesn’t have a collar, tough luck.
I had a friend in college back in the early 1980s that wanted to be a veterinarian since he was a kid. He got almost all A's in college but got turned down by every vet school in the country (there were not very many).
He ended up going to medical school instead. For the past 25 years he has been a surgeon in Houston.
The vet was a jerk in multiple ways, but the owner has 100% of the responsibility for the death of the cat. The owner could have at the least spent a few bucks to put a collar on the cat so everyone would know it was a pet.
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