Cop ''takes care'' of kittens

[mistermack]

What I don't get is why letting off a gun for such a thing in a residential area should even be legal. And why a HUMANE officer didn't have a better humane killer than a gun, and do it in his truck, not in front of kids. A plastic sack with chloroform would do the job in no time, and in private.

If you took your own gun, and did what this guy did, you would certainly be charged with a feliney.

[piscator]

This whole incident gives me paws.

[Gallstones]

What I don't get is why letting off a gun for such a thing in a residential area should even be legal.

Why? The shots were targeted, contained and served a legitmate function.

And why a HUMANE officer didn't have a better humane killer than a gun, and do it in his truck, not in front of kids. A plastic sack with chloroform would do the job in no time, and in private.

He would have had to catch them all first. How is near instant death from gunshot less humane than a long moment of asphyxiation? Maybe mom could have gone inside and not had the children watch from the window.

If you took your own gun, and did what this guy did, you would certainly be charged with a feliney.

If he has a legal right to carry, and I don't doubt that in many municiplaities that animal control officers do have a firearm with them, then there would be no felony.

The article doesn't mention caliber, but a .22 would be useful for most. Less noise than a neighbor banging a hammer, and no great tissue damage to cause a lot of gore.

[cronus]

Cats are responsible for hundreds of millions of small animal deaths each year...many bird species are on the edge of extinction. Wild feral cats need extermination. The means is unimportant. The end is the goal and preserving bio-diversity trumps a few pointless kittens.

[mistermack]

Fuck, if he'd done that in front of my kids, he would have got his gun shoved up his ass.

[Seth]

What I don't get is why letting off a gun for such a thing in a residential area should even be legal.

Why? The shots were targeted, contained and served a legitmate function.

And why a HUMANE officer didn't have a better humane killer than a gun, and do it in his truck, not in front of kids. A plastic sack with chloroform would do the job in no time, and in private.

He would have had to catch them all first. How is near instant death from gunshot less humane than a long moment of asphyxiation? Maybe mom could have gone inside and not had the children watch from the window.

If you took your own gun, and did what this guy did, you would certainly be charged with a feliney.

If he has a legal right to carry, and I don't doubt that in many municiplaities that animal control officers do have a firearm with them, then there would be no felony.

The article doesn't mention caliber, but a .22 would be useful for most. Less noise than a neighbor banging a hammer, and no great tissue damage to cause a lot of gore.

Add a silencer and don't say anything to the kids and nobody will even hear it. His egregious mistake was in not telling the mother to take the kids away. It was his gloating attitude and disrespect for the feelings of the children that I find repulsive, not the killing of the cats.

[Gallstones]

The kids were inside the house in an upstairs bedroom.

Mom also could have asked what he planned to do, and with that information could have changed her mind or removed the children.

[Seth]

The kids were inside the house in an upstaris bedroom.

Looking out the window?

Probably not, which means that a silencer would have been useful.

Then again, this could be considered a "teachable moment" for the kids...after all, farm parents expose their kids to the realities of farm life pretty early by teaching them that livestock is livestock not pets. Is it actually any worse than making a kid watch the chicken she's going to eat for dinner being beheaded, plucked and cleaned? I think it has somewhat to do with the delicate sensibilities of urban dwellers who don't have a fricking clue about how life actually works.

Mom should take them to a farm and let them watch a cow being slaughtered and butchered and then explain why the kittens had to be killed.

[Gallstones]

Fuck, if he'd done that in front of my kids, he would have got his gun shoved up his ass.

Are you retarded?

[mistermack]

Fuck, if he'd done that in front of my kids, he would have got his gun shoved up his ass.

Are you retarded?

I'm not retarded. I'm above average intelligence, but not massively so.

Why, are you looking for someone your level to correspond with? I'm sorry, I wouldn't have the patience.

[Seth]

Fuck, if he'd done that in front of my kids, he would have got his gun shoved up his ass.

Are you retarded?

I'm not retarded. I'm above average intelligence, but not massively so.

Why, are you looking for someone your level to correspond with? I'm sorry, I wouldn't have the patience.

I think it's a valid concern when someone suggests violently sexually assaulting a peace officer over shooting a couple of kittens, kids presence notwithstanding.

[mistermack]

I think it's a valid concern when someone suggests violently sexually assaulting a peace officer over shooting a couple of kittens, kids presence notwithstanding.

It's a perfectly proper suggestion, it would probably save a life. This cunt is obviously walking round just hoping to have a chance to shoot something. All gun-morons are the same, and like this guy, or George Zimmerman, they get a big kick out of pulling the trigger on a living thing. It's obvious that this guy is also a danger to humans.
I'm not particularly an animal lover, but I would still value the life of the kittens higher than this pathetic gun-nut.

My objection was to his shooting the kittens in front of the kids. Not the act of killing the kittens, so long as it was safe and humane.
He knew that the kids were looking. Why the fuck else did he tell them that they were going to kitty heaven?
His gun up his ass is the least he deserves.

[orpheus]

I was in exactly the same position about 20 years ago. No gun, of course. We had a feral cat in our street, and it had a litter of kittens in my back yard. I collected the kittens, put them in a plastic bin, and drove them to the SPCA. I got treated by SPCA staff as if I was the devil incarnate, and they extracted $50 from me as a fee for humanely euthanasing them. My whole visit was soured by their general nastiness.

I went out and bought a cage trap, and set it up for the mother. Caught it within a few days with a bit of meat as bait. I put the whole trap in a plastic rubbish bag, and tipped chloroform onto a rag and put it in the bag also (not in physical contact with the cat) and sealed the bag. An hour later, I buried the dead cat. My attitude now is that I will not ever touch the SPCA again with a 40 foot barge pole. Arseholes!

You could instead have had the mother cat spayed and released. No need to have killed her, and she wouldn't breed any more kittens. This is often done here.

[Seth]

I was in exactly the same position about 20 years ago. No gun, of course. We had a feral cat in our street, and it had a litter of kittens in my back yard. I collected the kittens, put them in a plastic bin, and drove them to the SPCA. I got treated by SPCA staff as if I was the devil incarnate, and they extracted $50 from me as a fee for humanely euthanasing them. My whole visit was soured by their general nastiness.

I went out and bought a cage trap, and set it up for the mother. Caught it within a few days with a bit of meat as bait. I put the whole trap in a plastic rubbish bag, and tipped chloroform onto a rag and put it in the bag also (not in physical contact with the cat) and sealed the bag. An hour later, I buried the dead cat. My attitude now is that I will not ever touch the SPCA again with a 40 foot barge pole. Arseholes!

You could instead have had the mother cat spayed and released. No need to have killed her, and she wouldn't breed any more kittens. This is often done here.

Dude, feral cats are pests, just like rats. Why waste public funds spaying or castrating a cat? Just shoot the damned thing and be done with it. Costs a dime that way.

[Gallstones]

Fuck, if he'd done that in front of my kids, he would have got his gun shoved up his ass.

Are you retarded?

I'm not retarded. I'm above average intelligence, but not massively so.

Why, are you looking for someone your level to correspond with? I'm sorry, I wouldn't have the patience.

I think perhaps the authorities should look in on you. You seem to be a person who not only entertains, but sees as proper, the indoctrination of children into your fantasies of forced sodomy and sexual violence.