Wow.

[apocalypsos]

Authorities are trying to find out who stuffed 70 dead Siamese cats into seven large trash bags and dumped them onto a road in suburban San Antonio.

Words cannot describe how much I didn't need to see THAT on the front page of Yahoo this morning. I need to hug my kitty, I think.

And you know, it just goes to show that my brain is totally fucked up, seriously, because as soon as I knew I'd have to work tonight all of a sudden I'm itchy to write and the words seem to be flowing easier. Oh, for fuck's sake.

Comments

[kajivar]

That broke my heart when I saw it this morning. I'm a cat-lover, but I've had Siamese my entire life so they're extra-special to me.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

You know, I hope some nut from PETA finds whoever did that before the authorities do.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

That's just hideous.

I...can't even find a somewhat rational and non-horrifying excuse for that. Some fly-by-night vetinary school that had collected them to teach necropsy and then went out of business?

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

I can actually make a guess.

This is the second case like this in the past year- a MUCH stricter kennel ordinance goes into effect and a scumbag decides it's easier to kill every animal he has rather than get fined for trying to turn them all over to a shelter rescue (since he/she is then out of compliance).

San Antonio has mandatory spay/neuter and crappy (read: looks good on paper, does crap all to actually assure quality conditions) breeder licensing.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Sigh, that's why I said non-horrifying. If the animals were already dead and just dumped somewhere...that's one thing. A breeder killing off animals so he won't get fined...or because he can't sell them in this economy and doesn't want to feed them, that's awful.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's an unfortunately symptom of the bigger problem of appropriate humane management in this country.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Oh holy shit. :-( Um, when the authorities do find that guy, you think maybe they'd hand him over to me for a little while? And loan me a large trash bag?

[bethos.livejournal.com]

That is the worst thing ever.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

When did your journal name change? Am I just THAT unobservant?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. It was only a couple of weeks ago.

[bleedingsand.livejournal.com]

... *twitch*

... I grew up in San Antonio. I only live an hour away now in Austin. I have family there and I visit about once a month.

And this? Makes me so upset with San Antonio.

BRB, chasing the cats down to cuddle.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I totally did not need to see that myself. You're my personal front page of yahoo!