The police chief of Wild Rose, Wisconsin, USA in effect supports the hunting and shooting dead of feral cats in and around his town and therefore by default he must also support the hunting of feral cats in Wisconsin because as far as I’m aware there are no particular animal welfare laws in the town of Wild Rose which countermand the general laws of the state of Wisconsin.
The police chief is wrong and I explain why on this page:
I have carefully studied the law and I am personally convinced that it is illegal to hunt and shoot dead feral cats in the state of Wisconsin (unless under exceptional circumstances) but as I stated in the above-mentioned article, the law is unenforced with regard to feral cats. I am sure that many citizens of Wisconsin will disagree with me in the belief that it is legal to shoot feral cats in their state. If you are one of those people please tell me why in a comment but it has to be a sound argument with reference to all relevant law.
There is an underlying desire in Wisconsin to be allowed to hunt feral cats. I state that because about 15 years ago the state came up with the idea of legally allowing the hunting of feral cats. It did not progress sufficiently to be passed into law. But the very fact that it was seriously discussed and almost became a law of this state indicates that there are a large number of people including people in authority who would like to make it legal to hunt feral cats. It also tells us that it is illegal to hunt feral cats in Wisconsin.
The underlying objective I believe colours the opinion of people in authority such as police chiefs who are perhaps themselves under pressure not to enforce the law with respect to the hunting of feral cats.
This article is based upon the well-known feral cat hunter Sam Wood, who is addicted to shooting at feral cats.
If you play the video above you will note (towards the end of the video) that there was, I believe, a nationwide reaction by the public to my article about Sam Wood (see below) which included a dozen telephone calls to the police chief at Wild Rose asking him/her to take action to ensure that Sam Wood was prosecuted for animal cruelty. His response as you will note in the video was that Mr Wood was doing nothing illegal. I strongly disagree.
If the police won’t uphold the law on cruelty to feral cats because it suits them it is a dire state of affairs. Their sole duty is to enforce the law objectively without fear or favor. Feral cats don’t receive their protection.
Around 2m are euthanized at shelters. Are you saying that millions of cats in America are shot every year? Are you saying that millions of cats in America are illegally killed every year? What are you claiming? That it is legal to shoot or poison cats in America that are outside the home no matter what state you live in and no matter whether the cat is domestic, stray or feral? If so provide hard proof but no BS because you are an inveterate bullshiter.
I have redacted the rude and gratuitously nasty parts of your comment.
Woody, I have published your comment but redacted out your insults and objectionable language. I published it in the interest of free speech. If you insult me about the redacted out bits I will delete the comment. I have been very generous to you in publishing it so please shut up and accept the very slight amendments that I have had to make to ensure that other visitors who I value and respect do not complain to me.
It is mandatory by law in nearly every, if not every, state of the USA to shoot any dog on sight that is seen harassing wildlife. This is why feral dog-packs are a rarity in most areas. They are SHOT before things get that bad. I keep a paintball-gun loaded with red-pellets for any stray dogs. Stings enough to teach a teachable dog, and leaves a nice signal on their coat. The first time they get the paintball gun (and MAYBE a 2nd time too if they seem to be a well-mannered dog). If that doesn’t teach the owner and alert them to what could have REALLY happened to their dog, then sadly nobody is learning anything — so out comes the rifle next time their dog is seen chasing wildlife.
Cats aren’t so easily forgiven, because from past experience I know that warning a XXXXX makes absolutely no difference whatsoever (as anyone knows who has ever tried to deal with any of them, look at this very discussion as proof of what I say). I and the sheriff tried that failed method of trying to reason-XXXXX for over 15 years while their cats annihilated all the native wildlife on my lands — from smallest of prey up to the top predators that cats had starved to death by turning all their foods into tortured-to-death play-toys for their cats. And if the native animals were not starved out or killed directly, then all their offspring that were forced to starve-to-death when the parents no longer returned to feed their offspring.
Cat-owners could really care less about their outdoor cats (or any animals, or any other life on earth for that matter, they would even rather that all humans died than XXXXXX) and they don’t really care how ANY of their cats die. So out comes the rifle on the first sighting of a cat instead of the paintball-gun. They don’t care how their free-roaming XXXXX is going to die, so why on earth should anyone else? Nobody has the time to put up with a XXXXXX. I most certainly learned that the hard way. (At the cost of countless thousands and thousands of native animals on my lands that their XXXXXX.
People who actually care about their animals keep them confined and supervised, or they lose them — permanently. You can tell who actually loves their animals because their animals are still alive. If you treat your animal as an expendable thing then so will everyone else. Again, you have nobody but yourselves to blame for the deaths of any of your domesticated animals that you let roam free.
I would love to see someone step in and put a stop to this. Not only is it little more than spree killing it’s dangerous to any cat who happens to be outside. I’m not even going to engage in the cats shouldn’t be allowed to roam.
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If Tiger had been a little fluffy dog the internet would have exploded.
If they were shooting stray at large dogs in the street the internet would explode
If some nutwackojob said he enjoyed killing loose dogs and making seat covers out of them the internet would explode.
A feral cat is cat that came from abandoned pets or domesticated farm animals. Not only do we need to prosecute the whackadoodles killing them we need to prosecute at every opportunity the negligent owners who refuse to S/N their pets and continue to add to the problem.
What I find thoroughly interesting, and astounding, is that millions of cats are being killed each year legally. And all that JUST because you refuse to believe why it is happening. If you warn your fellow cat-owners of how and why all their cats are being legally killed, then maybe the deaths of all those millions of cats each year would stop.
But no. You want to XXXXX as more millions of cats are being killed each year — JUST BECAUSE OF YOU.
Makes you feel all warm and cozy, don’t it.XXXXXX
Even if an officer makes an arrest it’s not their job to press charges that falls to local prosecuting attorneys. Even in cases where a ticket can be written offenders often go to court and it gets pled down to nothing or dismissed or the officer can’t show up for court.
Tigers case only made it to a SVB because she was dumb enough to think it was smart to post that crap to FB. The picture and her own words sunk her. Had Tiger simply been found along the road he would have likely been tossed to one side or bagged for disposal.
This was a case ripe for prosecution with the defendant admitting to the killing and evidence that she lied about her reasoning. She was fully aware of whose cat that was and that he was not feral. Her and her lawyer have made a mockery out of his death. Shame of a missed opportunity.