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This past July, my family moved several hundred miles from a very rural area where we lived on some acreage to the suburbs of a decently sized city so I could go back to school. Knowing we were going to be moving into a more urban area, we started down sizing our pet population. We had horses, dogs, ducks, chickens, guinea pigs, fish, a cat, and probably more that I am thinking about. The ONLY pet we kept was our ten year old cat that we took in who had been a stay.
After moving, we noticed a tabby that wandered the neighborhood day and night, but did not seem to belong to anyone. In asking several neighbors about it, we were told the cat was a stray who had belonged to a family that moved out several years ago and had gone feral.
Within a month and a half, twice I was woken up to hear this cat and my cat fighting in my living room. The feral cat was coming into my house through the cat door my cat used at 0200 to try to eat my cats food and my cat was not having it. Additionally, my cat and this cat got into several fights in my back yard where this cat felt entitled to go.
Two of these fights resulted in my cat going to the vet and almost a thousand dollars in vet bills.
One night, I was awake at 0200 or so working on my laptop in the living room with the lights out so I would not disturb my family when this feral cat came into the house and helped itself to my cats food. I was able to capture the cat, take it outside, and put a suppressed .22lr round into its skull to prevent it from hurting my cat again.
If anyone thinks any of that makes me a "cat hater", a "psychopath", that I should not have a cat door for my cat to go in and out, or thinks someone should do the same to me, then I am not really sure what to say. Some of you need to get a grip on yourselves.
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^ This is a rational, non cruel way to get rid of a nuisance animal.
I've caught two stray cats in my neighborhood. They were both pretty young, and probably from the same litter.
I caught them and brought them to the humane society here because local animal control only traps and euthanizes.
I went back a few weeks later and asked about them, they had been spayed/neutered given vaccinations and medical care and were adopted.
Could I have killed them? Sure. I could have killed them in any number of ways.
Nowhere in the article does it mention that the cats were feral or domesticated, adult or juvenile. Just that the dude sprayed them with bleach and killed them with a hockey stick. I highly doubt if they were feral he would have been able to spray bleach in their eyes.
Not knowing the situation I can't say what I would do, but beating an animal to death probably wouldn't be the way I would pick.
If they weren't feral I wouldn't kill them if I could possibly avoid it. Catching a cat that's cornered really isn't that hard, and animal control will come do it for free.
I have no compassion for someone who harms animals for fun. I'm not talking about killing vermin or feral animals.
IMHO this guy tried deliberately to inflict pain and suffering on the animals and people that enjoy that kind of thing are not right in the head.
I have shot aggressive dogs on a fob before and once we got traps I stopped doing it because the NATO vets would pick up the traps and eauthanize them.
I like animals. Some are more delicious than others. I just don't like to see living things suffer.
Dudes probably a psycho that tortures animals. I hope he gets a fair trial and if convicted gets an appropriate sentence.