Animal Cruelty Case: Truly Animal Abuse or an Abuse of Power?

I had a similar experience, and I will tell you that this is a bad thing, but also it's part of a much larger problem. My year-old kitty has long sharp canine teeth that protrude past the jaw, and I accidentally hooked one of them while playing with her and the single tooth cut my hand with considerable bleeding. It was not a bite! I am old and have very thin skin. Just to be safe, I decided to visit a clinic close by to get a tetenus booster, and showed the Doctor kitty's rabies tag and complete records with proof of all required and optional shots. The Dr. gave me the shot, and perscribed antibiotics (which nearly killed me). His clinic personnel filed a report to the local Sheriff that the cat had attacked and bitten me. A few days later, a threatening letter from the County Sheriff's office arrived requiring me to 1)call them and register before a specified date, 2)immediately board the cat for ten days for observation by the vet (over $1,000 cost), or be subject to arrest, fines, and loss of the cat. There is no legislation in our State, County, or city that supports this action unless the cat was not my cat, and had no rabies tag, and I filed a formal sworn complaint against the cat's unknown owner. I groveled properly to the "Doctor" Officer at "Animal Control" who "made a discretionary exception which only she could do" for me and agreed to allow me to keep the cat under "house arrest" and separated from other cats for ten days, then examined by the vet who gave the rabies shot, who would be required to report this to the Sheriff's office. I followed this to the letter, only having a clerk at the vet's office patronize me with "they're only trying to help you!". The vet was outraged, had never heard of such and charged no fee. I received a call later from the Sheriff that I had given her the wrong vet and "it's against the law to lie to an officer". Turns out she had dialed the wrong number, because the vet has more than one office. I had to call the "Doctor Sheriff" to verify I was no longer a person of interest, and this time she was very nice, wanting to discuss specific breeds of cats, etc. The county in which I live has many unsolved human murders, a very high rate of crime (a murder nearly every day), and the Sheriff is constantly complaining about lack of resources. But here is the bigger problem. Political Correctness, organized activist groups, power-hungry people who have little desire to do anything but control other people. This type of activity in all areas of life will eventually lead to George Orwell's "1984". He just got the date wrong. The answer is to return to the past. Marxist "fairness" politics and "victimization" activities the "green movement" or whatever the latest cause-of-the-day is leading to legal enforcement agencies writing regulations, over and above their authority to enforce legally legislated statutory law. "I got rights ya know!", and "There should be a law" is bad enough, but it has led to "I'm a law officer, I will just make up my own law and see if I can bully someone". You see, the do-gooder and the police officer can be the same person. It's even worse if she is a "Doctor Officer".

they put the wrong person in jail. It's apparent that the vet never even examined the cat. I had an FIV kitty for four years, and when he stopped eating it was because the FIV had attacked his jaw (a common side effect) and he could no longer eat because of the pain. At that stage we decided quality of life over quantity. It broke my heart, but it necessary. It really sounds as if this vet was totally unaware of the path FIV takes in cats. How sad, how sad.

What nonsense. Petside has really become the internet version of a the National Inquirer. Do you seriously believe everything you read? Do you ever, ever look at both sides of an issue? Apparently not. I guess this is to be expected when you let just anyone write for you.