A Michael Broad Blog
The city administrators of Jefferson, Iowa had decided that the police could shoot feral cats as a method of euthanasia after citizens had trapped the cats. They then backtracked after a discussion with local animal welfare organizations.
This is the story of a police officer who, for an unknown reason, was unfortunately called out when a cat escaped his home and was hit by a car on the road. The cat was badly injured – bleeding and having problems breathing. One woman witnessed the police officer shooting the cat in the …
A Pennsylvania man and his wife are in shock after the family cat escaped and was eventually killed by a police officer. Now the family wants justice for their cat, who was shot when the cat “hissed” at the officer. Tom Newart of North Catasuqua and his wife rescued 6-year-old Sugar when she was …
This is an example where it would have been better if, in the UK, there was a legal requirement to report a road traffic accident that resulted in the death of a cat. It is an anomaly that it is not. Harry, a microchipped, handsome ginger tabby with very faint markings, was sitting in …
Centralia, Washington, USA: You may remember the tragic tale of Freddy, a tabby cat, who was entangled in barbed wire on a fence. Someone called the police and Officer Philip Reynolds turned up. He decided to kill the cat with a hammer. There were several blows. He decided that he couldn’t use his firearm. …
This is a cat story from the United States, specifically Greater Lewis County in Washington. Freddy was an outdoor cat. He was trapped in barbed wire on top of a fence (the barbed wire was illegal, I believe). Freddy’s caretaker was Karen Thorson. We don’t know why a police officer arrived at the scene …
This is a petition on the Causes website. The link is at the base of the page. Elisa has written a lot on this subject on the Examiner website. Between cats and dogs, dogs are far more frequently killed by cops based on what I read but cats get a fair share of cop …
I feel compelled to write this because of a convergence of two different sources of news. In the newspapers, all of us, worldwide, are noticing the behaviour of the police in America and I would like to set this against articles written by Elisa in which she writes about the hundreds of dogs which a …
