Duck hunters in trouble for shooting cats

Arkansas gotta Arkansas.

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Not a shooter in the bunch

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What kind of sick a-hole just shoots a cat?

Rule 1 of getting away with something...never incriminate yourself.

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What kind of sick a-hole just shoots a cat?

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I agree that there's little justification for shooting someone's pet.

In my last community we had a major feral cat problem. By major I mean dozens of mange and disease ridden cats roaming a small cul-de-sac area and breeding. These weren't pets but we did have one dumbass neighbor leaving food for them from time to time.

My wife had parked her car in the garage one evening and had left the sunroof open. Apparently a cat had found its way into the garage and took up residence in the car overnight. The upholstery was shredded and the urine smell in the car was so strong your eyes would water. Some weeks later a big tom cat wandered into my fenced yard and got in a tussle with my dogs. The dogs killed the cat but not without leaving me with a few hundred dollars in Vet bills as the ol' tom put up a good fight apparently.

Between reupholstering the car and the Vet bills we'd had enough and so had the neighbors. We called animal control and they said they would loan us traps to catch them. Then they told us it would be a few weeks because they had a list of people wanting to use the traps. We bought our own traps and called animal control when we caught our first cat.

Their response was something I'll never forget. They told my wife that they wont be able to get the cat until the following day or possibly the day after and suggested that we bring it to a local animal shelter. Keep in mind this cat is pissed and would tear you up if you got close enough to the trap. My wife tells the animal control people that she isn't putting the trap in her car. They proceed to tell her that its no coincidence that the traps fit perfectly in a 5 gallon bucket full of water.

I'm an animal lover but believe me I'm not going to tolerate having my shite destroyed by a feral cat and a 22 between the eyes is lot more humane than being drowned in a bucket of water.

I'll simply say that over the next few weeks the feral cat problem resolved itself due to a collaborative effort among the local homeowners and the fine people at Remington.

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These weren't pets but we did have one dumbass neighbor leaving food for them from time to time.

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Could be the same situation with this story. These type of neighbors normally do claim them as pets. Is there anything in the article that says different that I missed?

Fwiw I'd be in Angola, no telling how many EBR strays got a crimson talon from that youth Hoyt.

Old story Pop posted from a while back