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Would you take your pet to this veterinarian?

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Ugh. this comes up i swear every year.

Do you love your pets? I do too. I have/had dogs (labs are amazing!), cats, snakes, ducks and chickens.

You know what a cat can/will do to chicks? or hell to even a full grown chicken? or a duck? yeah cats are mean motherfuckers. they don't just kill they play with them too.

As such I hate animals on my property. When they are a threat to my pets and my property? damn right i will shoot one.

IF YOU love your pet keep it inside. at least not able to come to MY property.

It was a good shot with the bow. quick kill.

though i have issues with her post after the kill. it shows a lack of common sense
 
waggy said:
Ugh. this comes up i swear every year.

Do you love your pets? I do too. I have/had dogs (labs are amazing!), cats, snakes, ducks and chickens.

You know what a cat can/will do to chicks? or hell to even a full grown chicken? or a duck? yeah cats are mean motherfuckers. they don't just kill they play with them too.

As such I hate animals on my property. When they are a threat to my pets and my property? damn right i will shoot one.

IF YOU love your pet keep it inside. at least not able to come to MY property.

It was a good shot with the bow. quick kill.

though i have issues with her post after the kill. it shows a lack of common sense
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Sidestepping everything you said, do you realize that what she did is a felony in Texas, feral cat or not? Regarding her picture, right or wrong, I would say that it better represents her lack of compassion and understanding how serious it is in putting down an animal.

It's not something that you rashly do and then post a picture of you proudly holding the impaled, dead cat while going 'Hurr durr, lookit what I did! Gimme a reward cuz I'm awesome!'
 
Nebor said:
You should all just google "dog shoot property" and you'll find thousands of forum posts and web pages wherein people's dogs have been shot, and people have shot dogs.
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Just because someone can be a douchebag, doesn't mean they should.

I'm a cat person myself, and my cats are fixed and kept indoors, but the old generation didn't do that and a lot of them are stuck in their ways. And it's just not cool to kill someone's pet for sport.
 
Why did you kill that cat, a pet of someone? Because I could, I had the ability to feel entitled. And I proudly display my ignorance digitally for the world to see. Amazing.
 
Londo_Jowo said:
I doubt she will be charged or have her license revoked.
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Yeah, this is Texas we are talking about. The pet's owners have no chance of justice in a state that has no problem killing an innocent man. Maybe she can get a job as a vet for Ted Nugent.

She kills them and Ted grills them.
 
DrDoug said:
Yeah, this is Texas we are talking about. The pet's owners have no chance of justice in a state that has no problem killing an innocent man. Maybe she can get a job as a vet for Ted Nugent.

She kills them and Ted grills them.
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First off, the state (any state) would have to prove that this cat is actually the cat people are claiming it is and that the vet tortured the cat. Based on the photo there was no signs that the cat was tortured.

Seeing you have all the answers. Where does this vet live in relation to the owners of the cat that missing? 1 mile? 10 miles? 15 miles? 30 miles?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...2!3m1!1s0x864144a3a5792851:0x5b892e7b5863c5d9

Austin County Texas is a fairly large country (656 square miles) and several miles away from where the Vet practiced in Brenham.
 
Londo_Jowo said:
I doubt she will be charged or have her license revoked.
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Ding ding ding, winner. As a Texan among Texans, I wouldn't support a felony charge or revoking her license. And you guys must not be familiar with the veterinary industry if you think someone would get their license yanked over this. Vets that get busted after years of prescribing human doses of narcotics and anti-depressants to small dogs (which are going into the owners for the innocent minded among you) typically don't lose their licenses.
 
Nebor said:
Ding ding ding, winner. As a Texan among Texans, I wouldn't support a felony charge or revoking her license. And you guys must not be familiar with the veterinary industry if you think someone would get their license yanked over this. Vets that get busted after years of prescribing human doses of narcotics and anti-depressants to small dogs (which are going into the owners for the innocent minded among you) typically don't lose their licenses.
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Dogs metabolize a lot of medicines faster than humans. I have a 30lb dog that was taking the same dosage of benadryl every 8 hrs that I would normally take before bedtime. I'm pretty sure we were giving my 15lb Yorkie (low) human dosages of Xanax too.

Having said that, there appear to be a ton of quack vets out there that never lose their licenses over far dumber stuff.
 
ElMonoDelMar said:
Dogs metabolize a lot of medicines faster than humans. I have a 30lb dog that was taking the same dosage of benadryl every 8 hrs that I would normally take before bedtime. I'm pretty sure we were giving my 15lb Yorkie (low) human dosages of Xanax too.

Having said that, there appear to be a ton of quack vets out there that never lose their licenses over far dumber stuff.
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Humm. lets see. quack vet that hands out narcotics.

VS

Vet that kills fluffy the cat up close, and then posts a pic smiling as she holds the neighbors pet at the end of a arrow, with a mangled leg from a furtrap.

Humm. I suspect she is done, no one is going to hire this girl. She just burned 150K in the drain. She will be flipping burgers or working the pole in some backwoods texas strip club.

No one is gonna hire her.


Opps, epic fail. I wonder what her attorney costs will be.

At 7:59 this morning, the Austin County Sheriff has completed the investigation of the Animal Cruelty case first reported to us last Friday. The completed case file has been turned over to the Austin County District Attorney for filing of charges under Texas Penal Code 42.092.
With the completion of the investigation, the Sheriff's Office will not release any further comments or updates to this case. Any comments, questions or information requests must be made directly to the District Attorney's Office.


Yikes, Texans want nothing to do with her.

"Wayne Thomas, she is NOT from Texas, she is a transplant from Wyoming. Please don't judge us here in Texas by her actions. I am from Texas, my ancestors came from Austin Co., and Washington Co., Tx. and still have family there to this day. I am a volunteer for our local TNR group in the city in which I live. Yes, many Texans enjoy hunting, but not killing of innocent animals. Please don't let your stupidity show on social media as she has done."
 
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At most she will be convicted of a Class A Misdemeanor (If they can prove she did so in a cruel manner), I doubt her license will be revoked even if convicted of such. I also suspect she will be in business yet again, maybe working with large farm animals.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Sheriffs-Office-Finishes-Cat-Killed-Investigation-300815061.html

Texas Penal Code 42.092 is cruelty to non-livestock animals . It defines an animal as “a domesticated living creature, including any stray or feral cat or dog, and a wild living creature previously captured.” Cruelty is defined under the statute as “a manner that causes or permits unjustified or unwarranted pain or suffering.”

Animal cruelty in Texas is a Class A Misdemeanor, unless it is a third conviction. Punishment for the crime is up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
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DrPizza said:
No. I have no problem with feral tom cats being quickly dispatched. Perhaps my attitude is different from living out in the country. But, I find it hypocritical to hear, "oh, that's okay, kill all the pigs and cows and chickens that you'd like, as long as I have bacon in the grocery store. But don't kill any cats, no matter how much of a problem they are, because I have a cute, furry, cuddly, lovable kitty cat at home, so I know that all feral cats must be really cute, furry, cuddly, and lovable, but simply misunderstood."
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It's hypocritical to value some living things more than others? Are you a hypocrite if you're okay with raising cows to be butchered for food but aren't okay with raising humans in the same fashion? Who are you to dictate what kind of empathy people can have with animals? Why must we draw animals into exactly two groups of human and other?

You're free to have your criteria here too, if you don't have sympathy for them that's okay, but you don't get to tell other people they're wrong because they do. That may be emotional, but no less emotional than the connection you have to your pets.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Yikes, Texans want nothing to do with her.

"Wayne Thomas, she is NOT from Texas, she is a transplant from Wyoming. Please don't judge us here in Texas by her actions. I am from Texas, my ancestors came from Austin Co., and Washington Co., Tx. and still have family there to this day. I am a volunteer for our local TNR group in the city in which I live. Yes, many Texans enjoy hunting, but not killing of innocent animals. Please don't let your stupidity show on social media as she has done."
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So deer and elk are guilty animals? What does that even mean? If anything cats are the bigger a-holes because they kill songbirds while deer just munch on grass.
 
Don't let your cats run around like wild animals and they won't get killed like them.

Good shoot. Good vet. I'd take a cat there any day of the week.
 
Londo_Jowo said:
At most she will be convicted of a Class A Misdemeanor (If they can prove she did so in a cruel manner), I doubt her license will be revoked even if convicted of such. I also suspect she will be in business yet again, maybe working with large farm animals.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Sheriffs-Office-Finishes-Cat-Killed-Investigation-300815061.html
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They don't have to prove that she killed the cat in a cruel manner. She committed a crime merely by killing a cat she didn't own. Texas Penal Code 42.092: "A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: ... (2) without the owner's effective consent, kills, administers poison to, or causes serious bodily injury to an animal."

The article is also incorrect on the severity of the offense. A violation of Subsection (b)(2) is a state jail felony, not a misdemeanor.
 
Venix said:
They don't have to prove that she killed the cat in a cruel manner. She committed a crime merely by killing a cat she didn't own. Texas Penal Code 42.092: "A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: ... (2) without the owner's effective consent, kills, administers poison to, or causes serious bodily injury to an animal."

The article is also incorrect on the severity of the offense. A violation of Subsection (b)(2) is a state jail felony, not a misdemeanor.
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Yea, and the person who let their cat roam around "abandoned" the animal under the code, subjecting the "owner" to a class A misdemeanor. I don't believe that an abandoned cat, by definition, has an owner. If an animal has no owner, there is no cause for #2. The only case would be under B1, but they would have to prove that she killed it in a cruel manner.

I am thinking an arrow to the head is predictably a swift method of killing an animal, which pretty much ruins the chances of B1.

The "owner" is the criminal, not the vet.
 
mrjminer said:
Good shoot. Good vet. I'd take a cat there any day of the week.
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That's silly. Being good at shooting a bow at a trapped animal doesn't make her a good vet. At best it's irrelevant.

Personally I'm very particular about who I take my pets to. I'm willing to drive further and spend more money to get better care (but my pets aren't as standard as cats)
 
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