Want to Legally Shoot Cats & Dogs?
...there is something very, very wrong with a new law being proposed by a republican legislator in Utah. He is sponsoring a bill that would legalize the shooting of all feral animals, on site. It calls for:
"the humane shooting or killing of an animal if the person doing the shooting or killing has a reasonable belief that the animal is a feral animal."
Reasonable belief? What exactly is that and who is regulating the guy on the corner to make sure he isn't just shooting his neighbors dog because it is off its leash?
A feral animal is any domesticated animal that "has returned to live in wild conditions." So all of those homeless cats you see roaming around ... or abandoned dogs ... they are the animals Republican Representative Curt Oda is talking about. He says this is the cheapest and quickest way to get rid of, essentially, the homeless pet population in Utah.
What next? Republican gun owner sponsored city-based hunting trips for cats and dogs?