Why did this woman shoot her sick cat rather than take him to a veterinarian?
We are told that a 73-year-old woman, Nancy Just, allowed her cat to become ill for months and then asked a neighbour to shoot him (and offered to pay). When he refused she shot her cat the next day with two bullets. She buried her cat in the backyard. Eight days later her neighbour reported the matter to Animal Control. They found the decomposed body buried in the backyard after questioning her.
“The next day, in the morning… I heard, pop pop and I went over there and talk to her later on and I said ‘you did it didn’t you Nancy? She said yeah.'” (testimony of the neighbour who was asked to shoot her cat)
It is extraordinary that this long time (20 years) cat owner ended up doing what she did. It seems inexplicable. Perhaps she was short of money and had decided that her cat was terminally ill and wanted to euthanise him. Or she foresaw huge vet bills and wanted to avoid them. The only way she could achieve these objecives was to shoot him. At the time she felt that she was unable to do it herself so she asked her neighbour. He who refused and therefore in desperation she shot her cat herself.
This is my explanation but it is guesswork. In my view it is a version of animal cruelty and a violation of animal welfare laws but apparently allowed in certain places in America. Whether she is successfully prosecuted or not will be a different matter.
Animal Control rightly say that under no circumstances is a person allowed to shoot their cat. What they’re saying is that it would be a violation of the criminal law. Some cat haters would disagree with that and they would be wrong.
The story is reported on wavy.com and they say that a judge has released her from jail on condition that she returns at the next court hearing in July. That means that she has been arrested and charged but I have no details.
Some people, cat haters normally, would argue that she euthanised her cat with a bullet to the head and therefore the cat did not suffer. I am sure that that will be her defence if there is a trial.
It does, however, highlight the necessity to have sufficient funds to look after your cat properly. It can be expensive. People shy away from veterinarians because of the expense. This leads to all kinds of additional problems such as the one described.
Still watching and believing in bambi cartoons? Unable to eat a hamburger unless someone else butchers the steer for you and where you can’t see it happen?
I think it should be a law where people like you can’t even feed your own cats unless you butcher the chicken, steer, hog, fish, or other animal that you pay others to kill for you, unless you do it for yourself first for a year. (Every child enlisted in a 4H-Club learns how to humanely kill animals with a gun to feed their own families and other animals.) Then maybe you’ll learn the sanctity of life and respect for all living things and how to destroy animals quickly and humanely.
So, you would rather that a cat, or any animal, suffer to death instead of instantly dying to put it out of its misery and torment. It takes real strength of heart to end the suffering of your own beloved animal. Not that you would understand that.
Woody, I know that you are trying to be very polite and I appreciate that. It is definitely an improvement. But gradually you’re impoliteness will leak out of you as will your anger and irrationality.
You cannot kill an animal unless you are doing it under control conditions and your actions are legal which means proper euthanasia with the correct drugs. You cannot just shoot an animal and call it euthanasia. That is illegal. Clearly in your world it is not illegal but in the real world lived in by people who are grown-up and who are sensible and who are intelligent it is illegal.
your cat gave you 20 years of love an loyalty an because you say you couldnt afford the vet bill you shoot your beloved companion , your a heartless piece of shit an i hope you suffer, when your time is near.
You must have never opened your front-door to step out into the real world or ever met anyone who actually lives in the real world.
http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2013/06/20/small-animal-livestock-euthanasia-on-the-homestead-what-you-need-to-know/
It is common practice to ask a neighbor to kill one of your own animals for you when needed, if you cannot bring yourself to do it. It’s a rural courtesy, everyone knows exactly why when it comes time to put-down one of your own animals that has a name. No different than asking a vet to do it for you because you can’t do it yourself. You have the legal right to humanely kill any of your own animals on your own property. If this were not true then every farmer and rancher in the world would have starved to death and wouldn’t have been able to feed you either.
It’s called being an adult and acting like one. Often phrased in, “It’s time to put on your grown-up pants now.”