Sorry, but are you psychic? Were you inside the vet’s head at the time she shot this stray cat? It doesn’t have a collar, as is obvious from the pic.
People like you whom have never lived on a farm and consequently never have had to deal with feral animals should stick to topics you know, such as strolling down the block to Starbuck’s, manicures, and shopping at Neiman Marcus.
The vet knew, has been fired, and is currently under investigation by law enforcement.
And yes I know feral cats, and you obviously know nothing about me.
Are you a female?
I was born and raised on a small SW Texas ranch owned and worked by two generations of our family-it is worked by three now. No one killed feral cats then-they were fed so that they stayed in and around the barn to keep rats and mice out of the livestock feed so that poison was not used. And loose pet dogs and cats became predator dinners, just like they do now.
I still live in the country-always will-and people here don’t kill feral cats, still keep them for rodent control-it is safer than poisons around livestock and feed.
Cats kill birds-always have-but they don’t fly, so there are still plenty of birds-I feed them all-and I haven’t heard that any birds are going extinct from cat predation. I’ve never shopped at Needless Markup, I do my own nails and I make my own coffee-organic Columbian blend...
>> People like you whom have never lived on a farm and consequently never have had to deal with feral animals should stick to topics you know bla bla bla yadda yadda bla bla bla
I live on a farm. We have lots of what you call “feral animals” all around. Feral mice, feral skunks, feral rabbits, feral bunnies, feral buzzards, feral rats. Feral snakes, feral lizards, feral turtles. Feral armadillos.
Did I leave anything out? Probably. Oh yeah, feral birds of all sorts. Feral coyotes. Feral frogs.
We (me and my neighbors) among us have a variety of cats that come and go. Some are feral, some are pets. They are all allowed outside; we don’t have dipshit Sierra Club bird-o-phile neighbors who get the vapors over outdoor cats. (Suggesting that cats aren’t allowed outdoors would bring howls of laughter from us simple “farm folk”. That’s city nonsense.)
Simpleton that I am, I kind of lump the animals out here into two classes: the ones that are troublesome to me, and the ones that are beneficial.
Feral cats are on the “beneficial” side. They’re attractive. They’re amusing. They help take care of some of the troublesome animals (I am not partial to mice and rats). They don’t bark.
There; that’s what I know. Do I know enough about “feral” to be allowed to have an opinion on this topic on your narrow-minded little cat hating personal planet?