FYI: bullet to the face is an acceptable form of euthanization for feral cats

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darkewaffle

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Honestly, I think a bullet to the face is as good of a way as any to euthanize an animal, but jesus fuck not right there at the house in front of a woman and her children. Take them off somewhere and do it, if you just have to. This almost sounds like some kind of psychotic break on the part of the officer.

This is kind of mirrors my thoughts as well. A well placed bullet is probably one of the better ways to go really, though he should not have done it in front of the kids/on her property and just killing the cats all together like that could have been handled better.
 

Red Squirrel

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That's terrible. I just could not bring myself to do harm to a kitten. Have to be sadistic to do that. There's got to be a better way to deal with the situation.

We once caught a kitten with intention of bringing it to the humane society. The kitten was extremely wild and unfriendly. Realized they'd probably just kill it, so we brought it back where we found it.
 

Red Storm

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I remember my uncle taking care of some feral cats that made a living on his property. He shot them with a rifle. I was ten years old and wasn't the least bit traumatized.
 

JM Aggie08

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Everybody wants everything wrapped up in a pretty little bow for them. Wake up call idiots. There's consequences to your actions. You call animal control and you're executing the animal. You buy cheap Chinese shit at Wal-Mart and you're putting your fellow countryman out of work and having some 8 year old working so you can save a dollar. There should be a picture of a child labor plant right next to your cheap items or a picture of your neighbor you've put out of work.

You're skewing off course.
 

shortylickens

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Everybody wants everything wrapped up in a pretty little bow for them. Wake up call idiots. There's consequences to your actions. You call animal control and you're executing the animal. You buy cheap Chinese shit at Wal-Mart and you're putting your fellow countryman out of work and having some 8 year old working so you can save a dollar. There should be a picture of a child labor plant right next to your cheap items or a picture of your neighbor you've put out of work.

Oh-kay?


 

jagec

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A lot of shelters actually suffocate animals with CO2. Put them in a box, displace O2 wait for nature to take it's course.

Which is awful, BTW. Mammalian physiology is such that we are actually more sensitive to CO2 than O2, so you know that you are suffocating and die frantic and panicked.

Nitrogen would be almost as cheap, just as effective, and much more humane.
 

JBT

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Nov 28, 2001
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The officer should have warned the lady to remove her children before doing the deed.

This was probably the quickest and cheapest way to remove these animals.

Everyone complains of how expensive taxes are and have there is so much government waste, then someone goes and does something nice and efficiently then those same people complain about that. We can never win.
 

clamum

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Feb 13, 2003
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I think it was in bad taste to do it right in the yard but otherwise don't see the problem.
 

Red Squirrel

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Really what they should do if they really really have to kill them is put them to sleep, then use CO2/nitrogen. That way there is zero suffocation. They just go to sleep, then never wake up. Lethal injection could work too I think, but I'm not sure if that actually hurts or if it just makes you sleep and die. Remember, you're killing them, no need to sterelize, just use the same needle for the same batch of animals, then properly dispose of it once that batch is done. Can't see it being all that expensive or time consuming either. Gun to the head is fairly humane too it's just wrong to do it right in the open in front of people and other animals about to go through the same fate.

I saw a video of gasing dogs and it still disturbs me to this day. I can watch beheading videos and other violence all day, but that one just struck me. The yells that came out of those dogs.
 

JBT

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To do all this CO2/nitrogen crap you guys speak of. He has to call animal control to drive out in some large gas guzzling vehicle. spend time to capture the things, drive back, store them have another person put them down, dispose of the bodies. I'm sure reports have to be completed by all the agencies involved in some manner or another as well.

To do what he did, get a clear shot, scoop them up throw them in the garbage. File one report.
 

FDF12389

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The complainant explained she felt overwhelmed due to the fact that her children were inside the residence and heard the gunshots.

This is stupid, it doesn't sound like he did it in front of the children. It's the parents job to explain why such things need to happen, esp if they called and asked for it. Hearing gunshots is not traumatic...
 

sourceninja

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Really what they should do if they really really have to kill them is put them to sleep, then use CO2/nitrogen. That way there is zero suffocation. They just go to sleep, then never wake up. Lethal injection could work too I think, but I'm not sure if that actually hurts or if it just makes you sleep and die. Remember, you're killing them, no need to sterelize, just use the same needle for the same batch of animals, then properly dispose of it once that batch is done. Can't see it being all that expensive or time consuming either. Gun to the head is fairly humane too it's just wrong to do it right in the open in front of people and other animals about to go through the same fate.

I saw a video of gasing dogs and it still disturbs me to this day. I can watch beheading videos and other violence all day, but that one just struck me. The yells that came out of those dogs.


The injections are very unreliable even when your a vet. My step-brother had a dog that needed to be put down due to medical issues and was suffering in a huge amount of pain. 5 shots later (which was horrible to watch I'm sure) the dog was still alive and eventually the doctor had to put a needle in it's heart to administer the dose.

It was a very sad and frustrating thing to hear.
 

shortylickens

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If you guys really believe in shooting then you should at least concede a pellet rifle would have been the better choice.
 

Mixolydian

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I always find it interesting how it's perfectly acceptable to kill animals, yet humans are strictly off limits. I think it needs to be the other way around...
 

sourceninja

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If you guys really believe in shooting then you should at least concede a pellet rifle would have been the better choice.

I honestly don't care how they put the animals down (within reason), but discharging a firearm near people is just a bad practice.

When I hit a deer a few years back the officer wouldn't shoot the deer until after I had left due to safety concerns.
 

SlitheryDee

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If you guys really believe in shooting then you should at least concede a pellet rifle would have been the better choice.

If it would be as certain to kill them without shooting them a bunch of times, then yes. At least the whole neighborhood wouldn't hear the gunshots in that case.

To be clear though, I don't really care that much about the welfare of animals I'm about to murder. It's a dirty job that I would want to finish as quickly as possible, but that's for me, not them. All this arguing about whether it hurts them or not is lost on me. Of course it hurts them, but if I cared enough to be bothered by that I would care enough to not kill them.
 

OutHouse

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"On 6-10-2013, a resident on Vista Lake Way contacted NRPD on Facebook regarding a "family of cats" that had made a home in their wood pile. The resident went on to ask if the humane officer would pick them up or would they have to deal with the issue themselves."

so facebook is the telephone now? Why in the world would a police dept use facebook as a way for contact?
 
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sourceninja

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so facebook is the telephone now? Why in the world would a police dept use facebook as a way for contact?

Why not for non-emergency issues. It's easy, its not time sensitive and it provides convenience. Seems like a good idea for me as long as it's not they only way (I don't use facebook).
 

Baked

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The police chief has got this crazy guy's ass covered. Old buddy network.
 

Scotteq

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So... the complaint is that he shot them???



Maybe next time the homeowner could request a burlap bag, a brick, and a small lake. That way there's no scary gun.
 

D1gger

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Hey, if it was good enough for "Old Yeller" why wouldn't it be good enough for a few cats?
 
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