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.
You are very good to me 😉 The story comes from a good news source, which I have forgotten sorry. I should have linked to it. Ah..he it is CBS Sacremento online.
I believe it and in my opinion the Merced police have stretched the vaguely written law to the limit for their own ends. It is apparently their policy to do this but there seems to be calls for them to stop it. About time.
Sorry Dee. I’ll write some more nice ones tomorrow, specially for you. As you know the trouble with cat news stories is that they are 90% bad or upsetting. That is what it looks like to me. So when I do news stuff it’s bad stuff.
I’m sorry for my mood. I’m a little overloaded by so many terrible animal stories right now. So, I have to go to a happy place and, although I hardly ever like “talking animal” stuff, this makes me smile.
Dog wants a kitten:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4yoXyb1_M
However, I don’t believe it is lawful for any officer to move the animal to any other location unless it is to a vet’s office or shelter.
I’ll try to find the law for this CRAP to post.
But, it is very true that law enforcement officers as well as animal control officers have the right to “euthanize” any animal in the field that they deem too sick or injured to recover.
I don’t know why they can act as unauthorized vets; but, this is my world, folks (puke!puke!puke!).
And, Michael, truth is not bashing!
Gosh – I’d be a mess if I had to go to work the next day after being up til 330 in the morning! Hope you can enjoy a nice nap to make up for it. I understand now you are not pressured to move which is good. Guess it’s a good time to buy property in London – mind you I guess that is always the case, but sometimes more than others. London is no longer English in many ways with such high property values. I wonder how many people living in London are from London.
Well I’m sort of happy for the tabbys – I think they need you. I think their lives are much nicer with you there – I am assuming they visit often. I’d have alot of trouble with leaving them behind but I am useless when it comes to emotional attachment to cats.