This story makes me so mad/sick, I'm coming out of my normal lurking mode hoping to get the petition more visibility.
I'm not much of a poster, but I know there are Pootie people on board here that do a lot more social networking than myself that can spread the word.
The Police Department has shut down their Facebook page due to the amount of outrage.
No independent rescue groups could be contacted? Feral cat groups? Just shoot them?
Story below the squiggle -
Thank you kindly!
http://www.change.org/...
When a homeowner in Ohio called animal control to seek help getting a feral cat and her five babies out of her backyard, she expected them to be taken to a shelter where they could be adopted. Instead, when "Humane Officer" Barry Accorti arrived, he took out a gun, walked around to the back of the woman's house, and shot each of the eight-week-old kittens.
Accorti told the woman that the shelters were full, so that the cats would be going to "kitty heaven." He then shot the cats one by one as the woman's children watched from an upstairs window, screaming.
You'd think that unloading a live weapon into defenseless kittens 15 feet from a residence would be frowned upon by a police department, but you'd be wrong. Accorti's supervisors at the North Ridgeville Police Department maintain that his actions were a legitimate method of "euthanization."