Shouldn't be shooting at cats anyway, the jerk.

Why not give the shooter's name? Why is he not being charged with felony animal cruelty?

It's not ilegal to shoot stray cats or dogs ESPECIALLY when our country animal control wont come get them unless a kid gets attacked first. That guy needs to attend a class on gun safety at the very least.
As for taking life I don't ever consider it a sport BUT sometimes needed...

All cats should be put down. Period.

Everyone knows you shoot cats with a shotgun not a 38 ....

May the fleas of a thousand rats infest the nether regions of those who would harm a cat!

Felina... How can NOT shooting a cat, but shooting your neighbor in the face be considered felony animal cruelty?? Apparently the cat wasn't hurt at all.

Duh! Its called Conspiracy to commit attempted felony capital kitteh cruelty! Stupid hoomin!

That was pretty funny.... I prefer .22cal when ending the suffering or proliferation of strays...

"Conspiracy to commit attempted felony capital kitteh cruelty"... Really??? And I'M the 'Stupid hoomin'??? You're funny.

Just another right wing redneck exercising his God given 2nd admendment right.

And if we believe in a God-given right, then we also must believe this man will someday have to explain to that same God why he is killing one of God's creatures.

Feral and stray cats often travel in small colonies, which makes it much easier for them to contract and spread disease. Since most of the cats haven't been vaccinated, it is easy for them to contract diseases such as feline HIV, feline leukemia and even rabies.
While rabies poses the greatest danger to humans because it can cause cats to be aggressive and spread it to humans, there are many other disease that can also cause death and disease through cat colonies. Parvovirus is easily spread as are several respiratory infections that cause a variety of symptoms such as eye and nasal discharge, coughing, vomiting and diarrhea.
Cat colonies can also contract fleas and ticks, which lead to several diseases such as different types of worms, some of which can be spread to humans or other animals. If these cats visit your yard looking for food, they may leave these diseases behind in their feces.
The biggest problem caused by feral and stray cat colonies is the rate at which they are capable of breeding. In seven years, one breeding pair, which can breed twice a year, can have up to 420,000 offspring. Obviously, not all of these live, but the colonies can continue to grow.
Because food and resources are difficult to come by, many of these cats die painful deaths from diseases or starvation. Since some of the stray cats have been raised in homes, many of them don't have the hunting skills required to survive in the wild.
so who is the cruel one?the person who promotes stray cats by feeding them a couple times then letting them get run over by a car,die of disease or parasite or the person that puts a bullet in the head giving a instant and painless death.granted this guy didnt use best judgement but all strays cats and dogs should be put down.

People should always sterilize their pets. Always. Felina, I agree with you totally.

It was an accident. The guy wasn't his intended target. It's unfortunate that someone got hurt but NO charges should had been filed. Seriously though, he needs to practice shooting the pistol.

The best way to deal with feral colonies, if they are too wild to be put up for adoption, is with a trap-spay/neuter-release program. The animals are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, then returned to their colony (since feral cats are often not very adoptable), which will eventually diminish if the cats are no longer reproducing.
Of course, this requires more effort and compassion than pulling out a gun.
Most people are not really going to come into contact with random stray cats in any kind of life-threatening situation. Most feral cats (and did this guy know whether or not the cat was actually someone's pet running around the neighborhood, as opposed to a truly feral cat?) aren't looking to interact with people unless they're being fed, and even then, they're usually too skittish to let anyone get close to them, so it's not as if they're going to jump down from a tree and just randomly attack you.
A person who can callously kill an unfortunate animal who poses no real threat can probably harden himself enough to "justify" killing just about anything. That's where cruelty begins.
If the cat belongs to someone who lets it roam the neighborhood, then that person ought to be made accountable and learn to keep their cat indoors--cats can live a very healthy, long, and happy life without roaming outside.
If the cat is feral or an abandoned stray, then it's not as if the cat chose that life. The animal is simply trying to survive just like any other animal in the world. Do you propose killing off every raccoon, possum, bird, fieldmouse, deer, rabbit, etc., that might cross your path? You're just as likely to get fleas or rabies from any of those animals as from a cat that probably doesn't want you to touch them.
And if you're concerned about your own pets getting diseases, then make sure they're up to date on their own vaccinations.
While there may be a lack of animal services in some areas, it's likely that any of the several rescue groups in the state could offer help or connect a citizen with a group in their area that can help in such situations.
I think that if the local people really cared about homeless animals in their area they'd do better than taking random potshots at them.

i do make sure my pets are up on thier shots.just had a litter of lgd,pups first shots are 7 bucks a piece with a series of 3 plus a rabies shot.a .22 bullet is less than a dime,which is more cost effective?what is the cost to spay a wild cat?that is if you can catch it.believe me i have a whole lot more compassion by shooting them in the head than what happens to them when my pyrenee gets ahold of them.i never make a random shot,if they are out of range i get a bfg.

Basic rule of firearem safety - Always be sure of your target and what is beyond.

Sigh, whatta doofus. I've shot and buried HUNDREDS of these piece-of-sh** invasive species vermin, and the only thing a bullet ever found was a cat. In fact it's so far the only reason I even own a rifle today. I named that .22 rifle "Tweety Pie" because cats is all its ever seen. The shovel similarly named Sylvester, because all it buries is cat-cr*p, and I'm not talking about cats' feces, so I don't contaminate any other tools soils or projects with all the heinous and deadly diseases cats spread today. Outfit your rifle with a good scope and a laser-sight and accidents like this will never happen.

FACT: Trap & Kill failed because cats cannot be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control.

FACT: Trap & Sterilize is an even bigger abject failure because they cannot be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today -- FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM. Many of which are even listed as bioterrorism agents. (Such as Tularemia and The Plague -- Yes, people have already died from cat-transmitted plague in the USA. No fleas nor rats even required. The cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own.)

FACT: Hunted To Extinction (or in this case, extirpation of all outdoor cats) is the ONLY method that is faster than a species like cats can exponentially out-breed and out-adapt to. Especially a man-made invasive-species like these cats that can breed 2-3X's faster than any naturally occurring cat-species.

FACT: Alley Cat ALL-LIES have only managed to trap 0.024% to 0.08% of all feral cats in their own city, thereby allowing more than 99.92% to 99.976% to continually and exponentially breed out of control. Alley Cat ALL-LIES can't even reduce the number of feral cats in their own city, yet they promote it as a worldwide solution, then even bigger fools fall for it and promote it.

FACT: When researching all the most "successful" TNR programs around the globe, JUST ONE OF THEM has managed to trap more than 0.4% of cats in their area. Oregon's amazing 50,000 TNR'ed cats (the highest rate I found) is only 4.9% of all feral-cats in their state. Yet, by applying advanced population growth calculus on the unsterilized 95.1% of cats they will have trapped only 0.35% of all feral-cats in their state sometime this year. <0.4% is a far cry from the required 70-80% to be the least bit effective.

FACT: During all this investigation I have discovered something that is unfaltering without fail. Something that you can bet your very life on and win every last time. That being -- IF A CAT-LOVER IS TALKING THEN THEY ARE LYING. 100% guaranteed!

Wow Woodsman, I hope you haven't reproduced. Even one of you is too many.

Some important information to help you understand "cat-lovers". Something I discovered when "cat-lovers" (an oxymoronic label if there ever was one) were using cats to overtake my land, eventually even by moving my property markers when using their cats had failed -- failed because I got the legal go-ahead to shoot their cats. (An expensive many $1000 lesson for these property-thieves, surveyors are not cheap.) I often wondered why they kept releasing new cats onto my land even long AFTER they already knew that all their cats were being shot to death, they were told this is what was going to happen, and was happening. Clearly something else was motivating these people. How many do you know that keep releasing cats after seeing many of them become road-kill, harmed by cat and animal attacks, die of diseases, killed by environmental poisons, etc.? (Like every last TNR-advocate for starters.) They don't care about cats, not in the least!

Human Territorial Behavior By Expendable Proxy

I have come to the inexorable conclusion that "cat-lovers" and cat-owners letting destructive invasive-species roam free, and those that defend the rights of cats to overtake private and public property and wildlife areas, are only (cowardly) using cats as a proxy for their OWN territorial behavior. Like inner-city youth that will disrespectfully and inconsiderately use loud music to stake-out territory for themselves. Whether this behavior is done consciously or subconsciously the underlying motive is the same. As long as they can have one of their cats defecate in another's yard or destroy their property, animals, and wildlife; and the land-owner not have any recourse; the cat-owner/caretaker owns that territory. It's time to put a stop to them using their "cute kitty" excuse for usurping and stealing others' property. If they want territory they can buy it like anyone else. Instead they're using underhanded and manipulative means--putting (and sacrificing) live animals in the path of their envy and greed. "Cat-lovers" only really want your yard, garden, or forest while making all others and all other animals suffer for what they can't have. Bottom line--they want to control you and your property. That's _ALL_ that "cat-lovers" are really after. It's why they don't care at all if their cat nor any other animals, nor even other humans, get harmed by their goals and (lack of) values in life.

Cat-advocates in Florida are even trying to get a court to let them use shopping-centers and hotels as places where they can keep their cat colonies (to act as speed-bumps, car-accidents, and health-violation-lawsuits waiting to happen I presume). We can now add "Shopping Centers" and "Hotels" to the kinds of property that they want to steal from the owners and control.

They can't be stopped from their behavior. They psychotically believe they are doing "god's work" for themselves. So you must destroy their MAN-MADE INVASIVE-SPECIES cats. It's the ONLY solution.

So many of you people don't have a clue what you're talking about. And the sad truth is these poor animals are where they are because of stupid, ignorant, callous people who have no compassion. They are where they are because of irresponsible people. And thus the reason for so many kinds of suffering in the world today. Over the past 20 years my husband and I have rescued so many cats that were thrown away by human beings. Almost ALL of them we have been able to tame with patience and love. At present we are lovingly caring for around 70 cats. They have all been spayed or neutered except for the seven kittens and two moms (again throw always) that are currently in a comfortable pen until we can get them to FURR when weaned and old enough. Like all our babies they will have good food and good vet care until they pass away. These moms were wild and I have already tamed one of them. Again with patience and love. Financially we have chosen to do what we have to in order to provide for these castaways. There is nothing to compare to the love and loyalty of an animal. They don't betray you, stab you in the back and love you only on their terms. They are exactly what God created them to be. Nothing more, nothing less, unless we human beings make it necessary for them to change in order for them to try and survive. Would each of you do anything less? By the way my husband is a second amendment believing gun toting conservative. And he loves our guys and is a care giver for them right along beside me. I am blessed to have a compassionate, Christian husband who respects God's creation.

Woodsman, has this paranoia just manifested itself? Or are you not taking your medication? Do you have any idea how delusional and insane your rants sound?

Mentally deficient Vickie,

I guess to you this must be just like all those deeply disturbed serial-killers in the making that are eradicating all those other invasive-species in N. America; like Kudzu, Purple-Loosestrife, Gypsy Moths, Emerald Ash-Borers, African Cichlids, Burmese Pythons, Brown Tree Snakes, and Eurasian Watermilfoil from their lands and lakes. MANY of which are escaped pets or were released from pets' habitats (Eurasian Watermilfoil came from pet fish aquariums).

Or how about all those sickos that run animal-shelters, they're nothing but a bunch of child-murdering pedophiles because they have to euthanize animals every day. And every farmer and rancher that has to humanely put down an animal with a gun must be molesting and murdering everything in their county. Those damned sickos! And what about all those people in stockyards murdering all those cattle every day for your McBurgers? I bet they're a hide-out for all the serial-killers that nobody can find! And all those hunters that provide food for their family by hunting, I bet they're the worst of all!

And of course, the ABSOLUTELY WORST, MOST MENTALLY-ILL OF ALL -- all those people who are murdering all those animals to make your cat-food for you! A bunch of demented basket cases! (on this one I'd agree)

I bet you're onto something!

Like your needing serious psychological help.

Paranoid psychotic much?

Here's a thought for any capable of thinking; This isn't about whether or not you like cats, it's about some idiot shooting his gun off in the city.
THAT is a crime, then shooting ones neighbor is also a crime, even if an accident.
Suppose this moron had shot some kid playing outside, then everyone would be out for his scalp, but because he only shot his neighbor, it's an excusable accident... really? If he had shot me, I'd be inclined to return the favor, even if it was an accident. The shooter is a moron! Shooting is a city is stupid, thoughtless and inconsiderate.
Just as an added fact, when I lived on a farm in Wis, I shot many stray dogs. I didn't like it as some of you morons seem to enjoy killing anything do, but it had to be done because irresponsible owners thought that dropping an animal off in the country is cheaper and more humane that taking it to a shelter. It isn't.

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If you advocate for cats as rodent-control on farms and ranches you've already doomed them to being destroyed by drowning or shooting when it becomes a financial liability more than any asset. Ranchers and farmers worldwide are fully aware that cats' Toxoplasma gondii parasite can cause the very same birth defects (hydrocephaly and microcephaly), still-births, and miscarriages in their livestock and important wildlife as it can in pregnant women. Consequently, this is also how this cats' brain-parasite gets into your meats and onto your dinner-tables, from herbivores ingesting this cat-parasites' oocysts in the soils, transferred to the plants and grains that they eat. Not even washing your hands in bleach will destroy this parasites' oocysts if you have contracted it from your garden or yard that a cat has defecated in.

This is why any cats are ROUTINELY destroyed around gestating livestock and wildlife-management areas in the most efficient, humane, and least-expensive method available. Common rural practice everywhere. The risk of financial loss from dead livestock and important native wildlife from an invasive-species cat is far too great to do otherwise. This cats' parasite is now even killing off rare marine-mammals along all coastal regions from run-off containing this cat-parasites' oocysts.

The next time you bite into that whole-grain veggie-muffin or McBurger, you need to just envision biting down on a shot-dead or drowned kitten or cat. For that's precisely how that food supply got to your mouth -- whether you want to face up to it or not. It's not going to change reality no matter how much you twist your mind away from the truth of your world.

If you want to blame someone for the drowning and shooting of cats, you need to prosecute yourself -- every time you eat.

NickieD, nobody's arguing that this guy was a careless moron. But depending on local ordinances, shooting a gun or air-rifle in a city can be perfectly legal, depending on where you live. If a city has turned all its residents into blathering idiots that don't know how to use a gun safely and responsibly, you can blame your ordinances that made use of guns illegal where you live.

Rule #1 of gun safety - be certain of your target AND WHATS BEHIND!
Rule #2 - Never point a gun (loaded or unloaded) at anything you are not willing to destroy.
Rule #3 - if in doubt about anything, see rule #1

TheBatt, EXACTLY. I wouldn't even shoot a cat if I knew a farmhouse was a mile away in the direction I was shooting. Instead I'd change to a new location and shoot the cat from there. If that was not possible, then I'd climb up to get a shot down to the ground, or move to put a nice tree behind the cat. Though, the use of a good scope and laser-sight made most of these precautions not necessary (not one of hundreds of bullets ever missed a cat), you don't take chances with a firearm.

There are safe ways to use firearms even in densely populated cities. And if you don't believe this, and don't want to be seen as a paranoid-psychotic hypocrite, then I trust you are doing everything in your power to have all your police disarmed A.S.A.P. as well.

nickie i pretty much agree except where did you see it was in the city limits?i just saw the logan county sherriff deputy made a statement and not all cities have laws against firing in the city limits.not a good idea but i didn`t see where he got cited for firing his firearm

omg...who cares about the damn cat...eventually it will be road kill and all you animal lovers dont start whinning about animal rights when the population is out of control...the main thing everyone should be concerned about is the well being of the man in critical condition for being shot accidently from a moran who doesnt know how to use a gun..........PERIOD

One of my neighbors had a habit of shooting his high-powered rifle at a collection of old tires, claiming that they would be sufficient backstop, but he was shooting across his property line and through mine! We were taking a walk when we heard shots and the bullets flying. Talking to him, reasoning with him, did no good. The sheriff's office came in handy for this and he was ticketed. It's the same with this fella here; he has no business shooting a .38 in a neighborhood if he's not defending himself from a potentially deadly attack. He should be ticketed at the very least. Bullets don't stop at property lines! And shooting at a stray cat; how did he know it was a stray, I wonder. And the neighbor, well, I hope he sues. Idiots like this shooter should not be allowed to possess firearms.

If this idiot can"t consider a safe field of fire he doesn't have sense to be shooting at cats! REEEAAALLLLLY STOOOOPID HUMIN!!!

Fact: Any cat that doesn't belong to you is considered a stray cat.

Romney should pick this guy as his running mate. He sounds like a real, gun-toting man. Has Packman made any comments today!?! I hope this guy was not Packman. All joviality aside, I am praying for the recovery of the victim.

Why? Obama already has his brother as a V.P.

This guy's house is surrounded by old wooden pallets that are undoubtedly crawling with rats, snakes and who knows what. The cat was doing him a favor.

Cats are NOT good rodent control. Due to cats spreading their Toxoplasma gondii parasites to rodents (and all other animals and humans), any rodents infected with T. gondii are actually ATTRACTED to cat-urine. CATS ATTRACT RODENTS.

Google: "Parasite Hijacks the Mind of its Host - Scitizen"
(for just one of thousands of sites revealing this confirmed effect)

If you want to attract rodents to your home, keep cats. I have hawks, owls, fox, and other local predators for rodent control. There is absolutely no need to use any highly destructive INVASIVE-SPECIES animal for this. These native animals also do a MUCH better job and won't be attracting more rodents to your home like cats will. Encourage the same native animals by you if you worry about rodents. Gray Foxes don't even eat farmers' poultry and even climb trees (the only fox species to do so) to help keep squirrel populations in check too. Learn to befriend all these highly beneficial animals. There's ZERO need for any cats, anywhere.

Interestingly, after having shot every last cat that had infested my land (hundreds of them), a mouse problem that I started having about the time all the cats started showing up, completely disappeared after all the cats were gone. Apparently the cats were attracting them to the area around my home. I've not seen even ONE mouse inside my home since I got rid of all the cats in the area. Coincidence? I don't think so. The T. gondii cat-parasite info that is available now explains why it was happening.

You don't have the right cats then. Mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits don't have a chance around my house. Talking about a cat hater, you might want to go get that checked out.

All of this talk about cats and a man accidently shot in the face.......
What if the shooting of the man in the face wasn't an accident? What if there never was a cat in the first place? What if the man on the porch was an a-hole neighbor that the shooter didn't really like and the shooter intentionally shot him and made up the story about the cat?
Shooting a 38 cal handgun several hunderd feet with accuracy is quite an accomplishment but he did it either way the story ends. My way is more interesting!!

Hey Populist - Only an idiot or an expert marksman would use a .38 handgun in a situation like this, and this guy is obviously not an expert marksman..... I too am praying for the human victim. If it's a quick, clean kill, I don't have a problem with someone shooting a feral cat.

@Jjackk,

Destroying cats is NOT hating cats, nor is it any fear of cats.

Why do mentally-unbalanced and psychotic cat-advocates always presume that if someone is removing a highly destructive, deadly disease spreading, human-engineered invasive-species from the native habitat to restore it back into natural balance that they must hate that organism? Does someone who destroys Zebra Mussels, Kudzu, African Cichlids, Burmese Pythons, Brown Tree Snakes, or any of the other myriad destructive invasive-species have some personal problem with that species? (Many of which are escaped PETS that don't even spread any harmful diseases, unlike cats.) Your ignorance and blatant biases are revealed in your declaring that people who destroy cats must somehow hate or fear cats. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is people who spread a destructive invasive-species that tortures-to-death all other wildlife that have zero respect for life. They don't even care about their cats dying a slow torturous death from exposure, animal attacks, diseases, starvation, dehydration, becoming road-kill, environmental poisons. etc., the way that ALL stray cats suffer to death. They don't even respect their fellow human being. This speaks more than volumes about your disgusting character. People like you should be locked up in prison for life for your cruelty to animals. If you let cats roam free you are violating every animal-abandonment, animal-neglect, animal-endangerment, and invasive-species law in existence.

If people DO hate cats today, have LEARNED to hate cats today, you have nobody but yourself and everyone just like you to blame. YOU are the reason people are now realizing that all excess cats must be destroyed on-site and on-sight.

You can take that all the way to the very last shot-dead cat's grave.

I keep seeing articles about auto drivers who accidentally kill other people, who are often arrested for reckless driving, manslaughter, and other charges, even though their intention was simply to get from point A to point B.
Why then shouldn't this man be arrested for, at the least, recklessly firing his gun in an urban neighborhood

Coralie, how come cat-owners that let their cats roam free aren't being fined and convicted for causing life-long debilitating injuries and even deaths in hundreds (if not thousands) of vehicular accidents every year from people swerving their cars to miss your cats? At the very least you should be locked up for a few years until you learn what "animal neglect" and "animal endangerment" means, if for no other reason. People are given harsh fines and prison just for locking up their dog in a car in warm weather, but you and all others like you are throwing cats under the tires of cars, and you're still walking around free? Something needs to be done about this.

I suggest you also check out insurance statistics on how many $millions in medical bills and human deaths are caused by vehicular accidents from YOUR stray cats.

There needs to be a new bumper-sticker:

"FLATTEN A CAT -- SAVE A LOVING FAMILY OF 4!"

Sounds like Woodsy needs to enter the Witless Protection Program.

My cats? Woodsman, I haven't owned a cat for many years.
You missed my point completely. It was that if motorists are jailed for negligent driving, so should shooters be arrested for negligent use of a weapon.
The question is not whether one should shoot stray cats but whether one should do so in a reckless manner in a town or city where it is possible to hit a neighbor (or his horse, dog, house, car, etc.)