Some police officers believe it is the most humane thing you can do, to place an injured animal at the target end of a firing range and to use him/her for target practice. It sounds disgusting and astonishing but that apparently is what some coppers who are part of the Merced police actually believe.
Personally, I have never heard anything so bizarre and sick in all my life. It is grossly deviant behavior and a complete breakdown in moral standards.
The Merced police quote the Californian law to justify what they do:
“…any officer… may, with the approval of his or her immediate superior, humanely destroy any abandoned animal in the field in any case where the animal is too severely injured to move or where a veterinarian is not available and it would be more humane to dispose of the animal.”
I see the connection but this piece of law is meant to permit a police officer to act in a genuinely humane way in an emergency when it is ethically and morally right to put down an animal immediately rather than waiting and taking the animal to a veterinarian.
The Merced police have totally misused this bit of legislation. It is obvious. How some of them can justify it is beyond my comprehension. There is one reason why they do it: they don’t have any form of empathy for animals. They see them as non-feeling automatons or something. On that basis this law that I have quoted should be scrapped. The Merced police don’t have sufficient sensitivity towards animals to use it properly.
The top officer, Norm Andrade, should sort this out asap.
Have a nice day, Dee.
Thanks to all of you. You all are so sweet.
I was tired, cranky, and plain fed up with everything yesterday.
I’m in a much better frame of mind today and am so excited about the Christmas boxes.
I’m running around like crazy to get everything done so I can be at Goodwill when they open at 0800. A little extra praise to hoarder Damon for making it a little easier for me when I awoke. I didn’t find EVERY kitchen counter item all over the floor.
Gotta’ go do my thing but had to check in here.
Love to all!
Money is better in property than banks, I say. I have made most of my money from bricks and mortar. I don’t need more than 5 hours sleep these days or even less.
The female tabby comes in at night and sleeps on a chair in the bedroom. I can tell because her hair is on it in the next day. If Charlie was not on my bed she’d join me on the bed.
Same here, I won’t go anywhere far away because I hate leaving our cats, I would miss them too much.
The sad stories upset me too but we have to read them and see if we can help do anything about stopping the same happening again.
Sometimes I just can’t bear to watch the abuse videos, they stay in my mind along with all the rest of the horrors already there.
But our reward is the happy stories that come along and the lovely PoC family we have here 🙂
We all love you so much, Michael.
Nothing is a fault of yours. It’s the world, the people, the place I have to be. I want to be with you guys. But, I won’t have my cats. Otherwise, I would be on a plane right now.