Unreal!! I think Mr. Yates should be on the chopping block as well. He had to contribute in some way! PETA has brainwashed some folks into thinking that animals are equal to people. That kind of thinking just makes my skin crawl. How about this story:
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John Komassa, a Department of Natural Resources employee was criminally charged recently because he killed a cat. He was trying to remove a feral cat from a state trout fish hatchery, but was forced to kill it for a rabies test after it bit him. Dane County Assisistant DA Paul Humphery has filed criminal charges against Mr. Komassa for the mistreatment of animals.
Mr. Komassa was checking on 350,000 wild brook and brown trout eggs icubating in a building. He saw a cat in the building (no collar). He tried to chase the cat out of the building, but lost sight of it. Mr. Komassa became worried that the cat could knock over a battery assembly or the power cords inside the building, thereby jeopardzing the trout eggs. The next day Mr. Komassa saw the cat again. He saw pools of urine, some feces, and a trout pellet bag torn open. He searched and found the cat, at which time he again tried to chase the cat out of the building. It ran into a furnace room, and he closed the door. He then went and got a pair of heavy leather gloves. Mr. Komassa went in, grabbed the the cat, and tried to release it outside. The cat bit him and drew blood. He was affraid of rabies and knew that health officials would need a brain sample to test the cat. Fearful the animal would escape again, he struck the cat with a piece of aluminum tubing, killing it.
A few days later, the Dane County Human Society investigated the incident, and at the insistence of the Wisconsin Chapter of PETA, went to the DA. Mr. Komassa was then charged with the criminal mistreatment of animals. The maximum penalties he faces include a $10,000 fine and 9 months in jail. Because this is criminal charge, the state DNR cannot defend him. He has spent $3500 defending himself, and the Dane County chapter of PETA is lobbying heavily for the DA to convict and sentence him in the harshest manner possible.
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Amazing! What ever became of common sense? Now, if the guy took a feral cat and dropped him out of a plane or set his fur on fire, or skinned him alive, or something else that was blatently sadistic, I would be all for him recieving criminal punishment. Too suggest that it is worth the county's time and money to prosecute this man is ludicrous.
One quote that I will paste here sums up this whole mentality.
Ingrid Newkirk ,PeTA (Washingtonian Magazine, Aug, 1986) - "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."