How typical is this – the police of Freeport, Florida totally ignoring a blatant act of cat cruelty in broad daylight in front of two witnesses? A man walks up to an outdoor cat that was being looked after by two people, who I will presume are ladies, and fires two shots at the cat. The second shot was to the cat’s head to ensure the cat was killed. The man is a local resident. The ladies begged him to stop to no avail. It is simply a case of wanton cat cruelty of the worst kind. The man said he had shot the wrong cat. It seems very bizarre to me.
The bizarre became the absurd when the police did nothing about it and declared to the ladies who had made a complaint that “no criminal act was noted.”
Thus, the police considered a case of obvious animal cruelty, and a felony (a serious crime) under the criminal law, as perfectly legal and not a crime. This is turning the law upside down. It is not as if the prospect of a successful conviction is slim because of a lack of evidence. The police have all the evidence they need. This would be an almost guaranteed conviction.
If the police don’t arrest and charge people who are clearly engaged in criminal behavior it undermines the fabric of society as far as I am concerned. The rule of law is thrown out of the window and we have anarchy.
Is this a typical attitude of the police in respect of cat cruelty crimes? Elisa Black-Taylor who writes for PoC is constantly bringing to our attention stories that indicate to me that the police have a disdain for the domestic cat that prevents them carrying out their duties.
Police officers are under an obligation to behave to a high standard, which includes acting impartially and not introducing bias, preferences and personal attitudes into their work.
I sense that some police officers support the shooting of cats. In short, they are cat haters and dog lovers. It is a very crude, instinctive and uncivilised way to live.
Good police work requires a high degree of self-discipline and ethical behavior. None of these qualities were demonstrated by the Freeport police in their investigation of this crime.
What is disturbing is that the man who shot the cat seems to have believed that he could get away with it. If he thought that, it is because he is correct.
This is a follow up page which quotes the law and concludes that this violent person committed a crime.
https://pictures-of-cats.org/Did-the-man-who-shot-a-cat-in-Florida-commit-a-crime.html
All the wrong reasons? Shoot one cat means saving thousands of innocent and defenseless native animals and all their innocent offspring being tortured to death or starved-to-death by that one cat. It’s a simple “animal cruelty” equation. How many animals do you want to have suffer to death? One or thousands? Even if shooting a cat would mean it suffers, that’s only one animal life that suffers to death compared to the countless thousands of animals that actually do suffer to death from just that one cat during its lifetime. No domesticated cat ever kills any other animal humanely. You have some absurd “animal cruelty” math in your head. It is far more cruel to all animal life on earth to let one cat roam free than to humanely destroy any one cat. That’s reality.
Firstly, I don’t make a distinction. Both are wrong as far as I am concerned. There is no need to shot animals for food in the 21st century. You appear to be living in the 18th century. ALso how do you guarantee that shooting an animal is “humane”? You can’t unless you are the world’s best shot.
Secondly, this cat was not killed for food. The cat was killed wantonly for all the wrong reasons and it was a criminal act. I’ll write a page about that tomorrow.
Culturally we are world’s apart. For me you are living in the dark ages.
Humanely shooting any animal to death as outlined in all hunting laws and laws on humane euthanasia for food sources is not animal cruelty. Why do you make some absurd distinction that shooting a duck or deer or hog or goat for food is humane but shooting a cat is inhumane? Your cats are not above the value and lives of any other animals. Less in fact. They are a highly destructive man-made invasive species that needs to be permanently eradicated from every continent.
Here’s a link to an interesting website that reminds you of how you came to be and how all your fellow humans feed themselves when they don’t pay a fast-food outfit or fancy restaurant to do your killing for you. Should your “civilization” fail you then you too would do well to learn these things again. It might be the only thing that saves your life one day.
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You might even have to shoot animals to feed your own cats one day when you can no longer pay others to stuff dead animals into cans and bags for you. Why is it okay for you to pay others to kill animals to feed your cats for you but it’s not okay to kill cats? Just where oh where does your brain make this all-important disconnect from reality?
Well, you seem to know the law well, so please tell us – quoting chapter and verse – where the cat was shot (i.e. on what type of land) and then prove to use why it was legal. Your comment has to be complete and full. No rambling please.
Are you saying there are no laws against animal cruelty where you live? Because that is the question surely. It is about that. That is the subject matter of the discussion.
You don’t say what “it” refers to.