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This, to me, is another instance of "zero tolerance" being administered by people who cannot think for themselves and/or have any common sense.
YES, the woman should have been fined for breaking the law, imo -- and if she continued to disobey the law, perhaps the fines should have been increased accordingly -- but jail time for a 79-year-old woman whose crime was feeding cats? SMH.
(If she couldn't afford the time, perhaps she should have done some kind of community service that did not involve working in an animal shelter or something she would probably actually enjoy.)
Well apparently it is illegal to feed stray cats and she was given 4 citations starting 2 years ago yet she continued to do it. This is kind of an important part of the story.
Yeah. This. She knew what she was doing, she was warned FOUR TIMES, and continued to do so anyway. Why the animal warden didn't come and get these cats, or why she didn't actually adopt, and license these cats, I don't know, but there were other options, and she chose to knowingly break the law.
Oh yeah we definitely cant let this sort of lawlessness continue. What kind of person feeds starving animals if they know its illegal. Should have just let them die. {sarcasm}
Cats are fully capable of finding their own food. They don't need help.
If this woman really wanted to make a difference, she would have been doing TNR and helping to cut down the feral cat population. Trapping the strays her neighbor left behind and getting them adopted out to new homes.
Well apparently it is illegal to feed stray cats and she was given 4 citations starting 2 years ago yet she continued to do it. This is kind of an important part of the story.
Except they weren’t strays, they were abandoned cats. If a neighbor leaves behind cats that are used to being fed by humans it is not the same as a feral cat who knows how to find food on its’ own.
Yeah. This. She knew what she was doing, she was warned FOUR TIMES, and continued to do so anyway. Why the animal warden didn't come and get these cats, or why she didn't actually adopt, and license these cats, I don't know, but there were other options, and she chose to knowingly break the law.
EXCELLENT POINT!! Why were the cats not removed by the authorities??
Except they weren’t strays, they were abandoned cats. If a neighbor leaves behind cats that are used to being fed by humans it is not the same as a feral cat who knows how to find food on its’ own.
The woman described them as strays in the OP article. The follow up article supplied by Fluffy described kittens and that of course is the problem.
As I said in a post that has been deleted we did the same thing. Neighbor was feeding strays and moved, they showed up here starving. We fed them, fixed them, named them and they are now out outside cats. So I have sympathy for this woman but she should have had the cats fixed.
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