http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/17/cat.euthanized.ap/index.html

I don't get it. I'd like to know what the guy told this shelter that convinced them to euthanize the cat right away.
ETA: And I'd like to hear the guys side of the story too. (This wasn't Soilman was it?;)) It just doesn't sound like the owner of the cat was very responsible or cared much about their cat, so I'm not sure I'm ready to jump on the guy yet.

:brood:

:cry:

Yet ANOTHER good reason to keep your cats indoors.

I'd have to be dug out of him. :mad: seriously, what if she didn't have a cat? would he have burned down her house? shot at her toddler with a BB gun?

OMG!!
I hope his punishment is servere

This is fairly common but it does not normaly make the news mostly because they just do not get caught.
We have a pretty tortie female right now that is obviously someones pet. A guy traped her in his back yard and took her to a local vet to have her put down.

Instead the vet took her and called our sanctuary 2 weeks ago and another of our foster families went out and got her, she is a sweet kitty about a year old and due to have babies any day now.

Yes he asked the vet to kill her with her heavly pregnant and all, sadly we can not locate her owners since she was not micro chiped nor had any ID tags or shot tags.
But she came into us healthy, well fed and even groomed so she was someones beloved pet.


Moral of the story is microchip your pet even if they are indoor kitties tend to get out.
Lucky for her she fell into the hands of a no kill organization.

Is there no limit to how mean people can be? :cry: I don't care what someone did to me (and I've had some doozies done!), I would never kill their cat. Even when I was an omni, I wouldn't have done something that evil.

I would like to hear the other side of the story. I've seen far too many people who let their animals roam free and do considerable damage to other people's property, not to mention injuring people and pets. Did this cat terrorize his family or kill one of his pets? Also, in some overcrowded shelters, it's not uncommon to euthanize animals as soon as they walk through the door. That happened by me a few years ago, I don't know all the details, but the owners had contacted the shelter that day.

Good heavens... Although I doubt I'd like it, I'd like to hear his side of the story, too.

Poor kitty :no:

I can understand the desire to take extreme action if there's an ongoing problem, but acting on it....

My neighbors two brats scream nonstop morning noon and night every weekend. I didn't even know it was possible for children to be THAT loud. i'd like to sneak into his yard and set fire to all of their toys but that would be wrong.

kids scream. cats roam. dogs bark. live and let live.

If he wanted it dead, why not kill it himself?

I can understand the desire to take extreme action if there's an ongoing problem, but acting on it.... Taking a loose animal to a shelter isn't extreme action in my opinion. My neighbors two dogs get out almost every single day, and I'm afraid for their safety so after multiple times bringing their dogs back to them, either just putting them back in the yard, or knocking on the front door, I decided that the next time I would take them to Animal Control so that the owners would have to pay a fee to retrieve their pets. You could say I was being a bitch, but owners need to be responsible for their pets. That's why I'd like to hear the full story in this case. Was this someone like me? Or was it someone who perhaps ripped off the cats ID tags and lied to the shelter and said "this is my own cat, he's aggressive and mean and has litterbox issues, I don't want him anymore" or what?

If he wanted it dead, why not kill it himself?
Because in most states it is illegal and caries a nice fine and or jail time.

Because in most states it is illegal and caries a nice fine and or jail time.

Only if you get caught.

Taking a loose animal to a shelter isn't extreme action in my opinion. My neighbors two dogs get out almost every single day, and I'm afraid for their safety so after multiple times bringing their dogs back to them, either just putting them back in the yard, or knocking on the front door, I decided that the next time I would take them to Animal Control so that the owners would have to pay a fee to retrieve their pets. You could say I was being a bitch, but owners need to be responsible for their pets. That's why I'd like to hear the full story in this case. Was this someone like me? Or was it someone who perhaps ripped off the cats ID tags and lied to the shelter and said "this is my own cat, he's aggressive and mean and has litterbox issues, I don't want him anymore" or what?

taking a loose animal to a shelter isn't extreme, but having it put down knowing full well it's your neighbors is, IMO.

taking a loose animal to a shelter isn't extreme, but having it put down knowing full well it's your neighbors is, IMO.
That's why I said the story didn't make sense. He took the cat to a shelter. How does this guy have say on putting a surrendered animal to sleep at a shelter? He didn't put the cat to sleep, so I'm wondering what he said that convinced the shelter to euthanize the cat. ?

That's why I said the story didn't make sense. He took the cat to a shelter. How does this guy have say on putting a surrendered animal to sleep at a shelter? He didn't put the cat to sleep, so I'm wondering what he said that convinced the shelter to euthanize the cat. ?
Were I live all you have to do is sign the animal over and state that it either is or or not yours.

With cats almost all are put to death the same day and kittens are all put down not matter thier health.
I think our lovley pound boasts something like 50 thousand I can not recall if this number is weekly or monthly but I do know a couple years ago our city was the highed in the USA in killing pets.

I would imagine his city is much the same.

" I'd like to know what the guy told this shelter that convinced them to euthanize the cat right away."

Simple: it is my cat and I want it euthanized. They charge you a small fee to euthanize it.

If it is not your cat, you may not euthanize it. If the cat is allowed to roam free, without identifying clothing or marks, naturally people who find it roaming around in their back yard, are going to decide "its mine" and do with it whatever they want. Even it it has identification attached to it, some people may remove it, and then bring the cat to the shelter. Unless someone can prove otherwise, the shelter will assume you are telling the truth, if you say "the cat is mine" and they are not given info to the contrary, such as a collar saying it is someone else's. Why shouldn't they?

This is the risk you take if you let your cat roam around unattended.

"kids scream. cats roam. dogs bark. live and let live."

Legally cats and dogs are property. Kids are human beings. What you may do to someone's property if it becomes a nuisance to you, is a lot different than what you may do to their children. also, what you can do with a roaming animal is a lot differnt than what you may do with an animal that is a nuisance, whilst still confined to its owner's land.

Cats and dogs are in fact property in my state and to kill or harm one is destruction of personal property as well as any animal protection laws violated.

"Cats and dogs are in fact property in my state and to kill or harm one is destruction of personal property as well as any animal protection laws violated."

Exactly. That is why the people who bring them cats that they find on their property, to veterinarians, to have them euthanized, or to shelters to have them euthanized at cost or less, say "it is my cat." Shelter workers will ask them: "is this your cat, it must be your cat if you want it euthanized." Most people figure out that getting the animal euthanized is simply a matter of saying "yes, it is my cat." Frankly, if I find a cat on my property, and it doesn't have a tag on it with a name an address of an owner -- I consider it my cat. If it does have the name and address of an owner -- lets just say that every turd their cat leaves in my veg garden, is their property, and I will be returning it to them.

Once the animal is euthanized the burden of proof that it is someone else's property, is on whowever wants to claim it was their property. It is impossible to do that once the animal has been cremated, and very difficult even if the animal is still alive. You would need a tattoo or skin implant that the person who brought the animal in did not notice and remove, before bringing it in. Imagine the cat has already been cremated and you want to prove it was yours, and did not belong to the person who brought it in. If you town requires a license and you didn't have one -- if you succeed in proving it was yours -- you will face a stiff fine for owning an unlicensed animal. It the animal was licensed, proving it was yours is still very difficult.

Also, if you let your cat roam about, and someone else finds it, shelter workers are pretty much going to go by the rule of "finders keepers" in deciding who it belongs to. Unless the animal is a registered breed and worth more than $5000, you are unlikely to be able to enlist a lawyer to help you.

If your animal is worth $5,000, your neigbors know you are unlikely to let it roam about unsupervised. So they will feel quite free to consider it "my animal" if they find it leaving a turd in their garden.

If you want your animals to be kept safe, license you animals if the law requires it, and keep them on your property.

And micro chip, that can not be stressed enough.
Before any animal is put down here they are scaned for a chip and if it comes up as owned it does not matter who brought it in the party that registered the micro chip will be contacted. it is kind of a safty net past tags which can be removed.

" I'd like to know what the guy told this shelter that convinced them to euthanize the cat right away."

Simple: it is my cat and I want it euthanized. They charge you a small fee to euthanize it.
Then that shelter is pretty pathetic.

I wish microchipping were mandatory (or atleast brought up more often*). You adopt an animal or rescue it and take it for its first checkup, the microchip is included in the examination. It would help out a lot.

*I've never been to a vet, yet, that has suggested it.

At my local shelter (Edmonton Humane Society) they spay/neuter and microchip all pets before releasing them for adoption. They usually get one round of vaccinations too, and when you adopt the Humane Society pays for your first vet visit as long as it's within 10 days. The adoption fee seemed a little high to me at first, but not after I found out about all the great stuff it covered. (Also 1 month of pet insurance, with reduced rates if you continue after that).