Assuming you’re a good shot and it’s a wild or feral animal that’s going to be put down anyway, yeah, I think shooting it is more humane than capturing it for the purpose of killing it later, which drags out the discomfort to the animal much more. It’s messier, sure, so I understand why it makes people more viscerally…

If we’re talking about a feral or wild animal and the animal is going to be killed either way (which, depending on the situation, might not be appropriate and sounds like it likely wasn’t here), shooting it is going to be as quick and save the animal the stress of the capture, so, yes.

As I mentioned to another commenter, I’m thinking more of a scenario where the cat’s picking off someone’s chickens, though given the local reaction I recognize that’s likely not what happened here — that’s just the kind of case I’m envisioning in which it might make sense to put a feral cat down.

Yeah, I don’t mean to suggest that I think this cat definitely had to die, but I at least hope there’s more to this story than horrible person killed cat for shits and giggles, as troubling as the taking and posting the facebook picture is. Granted, because the local police department has expressed some level of…

As I said in my initial post, posting the picture is troubling to say the least. One hopes that even if an animal does need to be put down for any reason, it’s not an opportunity for celebration. You lost me at cats and dogs are like children, though. They are not.

So a guy who wants to auction off a beanie baby is claiming it’s worth 100k and we are reporting this as fact?

Yeah, there’s one stashed in a closet at my parent’s house. To ebay I go...

It’s not clear from the reports if the cat she killed was Tiger, which is the similar looking cat that went missing on Wednesday. The bragging facebook post is, as I indicated in my initial post, troubling. My position isn’t “Team This Lady Who Shot the Cat.” But I agree with the original poster that, assuming this is…

It could pose a threat to other animals in the neighborhood. Not saying that was the case here, but at least some of the outrage here seems to be about the chosen method — the bow and arrow — which I don’t see a problem with if you accept that sometimes aggressive animals need to be put down.

I medium agree with you. The posting it to facebook troubles me, but as far as the actual kill goes, if this was a feral cat that was aggressive and had to be put down, shooting it in the head is probably more humane than putting it through the stress of being caught and taken to the vet to be put down via drugs. I…

Dark City was good tho. I mean, Goyer’s hit or miss but he’s been good on more than a couple things. Not someone I’d bet the farm on, but I wouldn’t bet against him either.

There is a lot of evidence showing as men age they’re less likely to have healthy babies, even though their fertility doesn’t drop off as suddenly as women do. Yes, men in their 80s can technically have babies, but if you look at the babies men in their 80s have had vs those men in their 30s have had, you’ll probably…

He worked on the Nolan batman movies though, which were mostly solid, though I was not a fan of dark knight rises.

“I am so respected, it would damage the town to hear it.”

Yeah, that and The Fighter I enjoyed. Everything else is meh to thoroughly obnoxious.

ain’t nothing wrong with a big ole butt

But it is falling:

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You are wrong, he was only regular-hot in Drive.

Let us all take a moment to remember the time Andy Dick had his ass (deservedly) handed to him by Jon Lovitz.