After their beloved pet cat was shot dead in the alley behind their home, a family from Lebanon, Ohio is lobbying for a change in the policy on handling stray animals.
Police received a call from the cat owners’ neighbors regarding a sickly looking cat in their backyard. According to the department policy, any sick or injured stray cats are to be eliminated if found, and under no circumstances are they to be transported in a police vehicle.
Two officers acted accordingly and shot the cat dead. What enraged the cat’s owners is the fact that it was never checked for identification tags neither did the officers attempt in any way to determine whether it was a stray or a pet cat.
They’re trying to make the police change its stray animals handling policy so that mistakes like these won’t happen again.
it won’t matter how many times they change the policy, police are not normally the caring type of person. they will still shoot a cat if they want too. i’m sure that officer just wanted to kill something. police here will kill your dogs or cats if they get the notion, and nothing can be done about it. i agree it’s wrong, but the majority if police are so young and still strung out on testosterone and the fact that they get a badge that says here go do what you want as long as it looks like your doing your job. fuck the police!
If it was sick looking then the owners should be charged with animal cruelty. I have people living close to me who’s cats and dogs have never had shots and they run the streets in search of food and when they are hit by cars they are left to die or run around with broken bones in a lot of pain. Of course when animal control go to them they always say NOT MY DOG OR CAT so they don’t have to pay vet bills.
@Fuckerman
There’s also the possibility that the people just didn’t want the cat in their yard and said it looked sick. Again, the cops didn’t check.
i hope those officers die a slow painful death