Posted on 04/27/2015 10:50:28 AM PDT by QT3.14
By now, you’ve probably heard of Kristen Lindsey. She’s the veterinarian from Brenham who’s given more bad press to the state than Blue Bell after she posted a picture on Facebook of herself, smiling and holding an arrow with a dead cat on the end of it:
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Some humans are below animals.
I couldn’t agree more.
Our society/culture has seemed to have crested the tipping point in which the acquiescence to authority has become mandatory.
Those that reject authority, reject having someone else “tell” us what to think or do, are increasingly the targets to be controlled.
I just thought about that wild creature... and caught around the neck and having to bed down exposed out in the cold and rain overnight awaiting it's fate. Born free. Died with a wire around it's neck.
Cats are God’s creatures and are owed the respect he gave them. Cruelty to animals is one of the lowest of human activities.
The leg is behind the foliage. You can clearly see the foot.
Another point would be that “chipping” of cats is common today. Catching the cat alive and running a scan on it would be the only sure way to determine that nobody has a claim to it.
Okay, what does that mean, then? Did I misunderstand you?
So if ones pet gets out, someone should shoot it in the head with a bow and arrow? You have the sensitivity to life and nature as a cardboard box.
What did cardboard boxes ever do to deserve the comparison
It looks like you guys are almost certainly correct, I let a caption influence me on what at first glance appeared to be a missing leg, but that just about has to be the foot showing beneath the leaves.
I hope my posts don't mislead many people before they reach this far in the thread.
Look at post 57, no vet should be confused between a feral cat and a pet.
Feral cats are easy to spot, and trying to approach them gives you all the clues you need, it isn’t their looks, it is their behavior and reactions that tell you that they are not tame.
Stalking a pet cat must not have been much of a challenge for this vet.
No worries. But the leg does look bloody to me...wonder how that happened.
The blood could have come off the vets hand after she tried to pull the arrow out, or leaves, or anything.
I think you are on to something though. Cause it is bloody, and it is not hanging the way it should. I would not be surprised to find out that leg got mangled in a trap.
It’s behind the leaves. Or are you saying she cut it off to torture the cat? If that’s the case, this thread is becoming increasingly nutty.
She could trap them and take them to the pound. That way if they are not feral the owner has a chance to recover them. One of our cats slipped out of the house one night without a collar, and it happened to him. He was chipped, and we got him back.
Shooting pet animals is frowned on out here by residents-those are not considered desirable neighbors in any sense-most of the people who do that are townie transplants wanting to protect every sparrow and dove like it is an endangered species because they don’t know any better. I don’t associate with people who poison, shoot, drown or otherwise kill pet animals, feral or not-I don’t find them to be caring people-my business, my choice.
We nearly all keep our cats-and most dogs-indoors unless accompanied to keep them from being eaten by a predator.
The privately funded no-kill shelter guys will trap any intact feral cat and neuter/spay it for free. They can live out their lives killing rodents and being fed by people who have livestock, keep feed in their barns and choose natural pest control rather than poison which can seep into groundwater and gardens.
Most on this road have chickens and sell/trade eggs and chickens-but these are small cottage businesses-there are probably not 80 baby chicks on the whole road at one time. People have well fenced-at least 6ft game fence-areas for their chickens, and take them into a secure henhouse/pen at night-I’ve never heard of a cat raiding chickens here, and I’ve lived in the area for over 10 years...
The chicken predators here are coyotes, the rare loose dog, and varmints like skunks. But there are also plenty of feral hogs, coyotes and a few mountain lions around-a loose pet animal, feral or not will not last the week around here unprotected...
You are the first person to introduce the idea of her cutting off the leg to torture the cat.
So now they have a bounty on Feral Cats and are doing whatever they need to do to eradicate them and the Feral Car population is estimated at 12 million down there.
Wonder what it is here? So trapping them and taking them to spade and neutered is not the answer, it's eradicating them.
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