There was a bird watcher out on the west end of Galveston Island, recently, watching the sparrows and cliff swallows under the toll bridge, probably. NObody lives out there, just campers wade fishing San Luis pass. The bird watcher saw the cat after a bird, got his .22 and shot the cat. Guess the toll booth workers saw it or something. He got hauled to jail and charged with animal cruelty. Now, I have absolutely no problem with people shooting feral cats! Does that make me a knuckle dragger? The cat was killing wildlife. I don't know if they'd charged the guy, but the toll booth operators had been feeding the cat and claimed it as their pet. Well, to me, it was just a feral cat doing what feral cats do. So, the guy's in jail for shooting a pest. To me, this is absolutely STUPID, RIDICULOUS, MORONIC! I wouldn't have shot the cat, care less if he wants to eat. And, cats eat what they kill, don't just kill to be killin' like dogs will do. But, hell, it was a pest, a friggin' feral cat! Had it been a coyote, no problem!
What the hell is the difference in a coyote and a feral cat? They both kill to eat! Yet, people kill coyotes on sight and cats are sanctified or something.
Yeah, you shoot or kill or harm or turn your dogs loose on my cats, well, you got what's comin' to you, but they are my property and they have their shots and they're no threat to the world and they're beneficial to me. A cat in the wild? Well, even if the toll booth operators were feeding it, is it really a pet? Did they get it shots and get it neutered? Do they have an investment in the cat? Probably not.
I'm wondering how that one's going to turn out. I think it's stupid to waste jail space on such a case, though. You're locking up a bird watcher for shooting a cat and there are illegal aliens that get a free pass. I guess the fact that they are illegal isn't grounds for arrest and deportment?
You know, when I was a kid, I brought home a yellow lab cross a guy had given me. We lived out in the country and he stayed in the yard, but he got to running down the road and killing the neighbor's chickens. The neighbor called the old man, the old man took the dog out back and shot him right then and there. Hey, can't have a chicken killer hangin' around. Now days, he'd gotten 30 days in the electric chair, I guess.
This country has totally lost its priorities.