No my cats do not need a license, but they do have to have their rabies shots, and be tagged with it. My animals may not be on a leash, but they also aren't a threat to a child if they feel threatened, and decide to bite . How many news stories do you hear of a cat attacking a person. You don't it's mostly dogs...so that is why they need to be on a leash. As far as using your flower beds as a litter box, dogs just go in your yard for people to step in. They don't even bother to cover it up, and don't care where they go. Cats control the mice, and chipmunks...I don't enjoy finding them on my porch either, but hey I would rather find them dead on my front porch then running through my house.

Don't get me wrong I like dogs, and unfortunatly I am not allowed to have them where I live, or else I would have one. It would be registered and on a leash just as the law requires. I have no complaints on that law at all. I also have no complaints on how I spend hundreds of dollars a year on my cats at the vets. Like I said they are like my children, and I would do anything for them.

Let me ask you this. If this was your dog, would you not want justice for such a inhumane thing that somebody had done? What if your dog got off it's leash, and drank antifreeze? How would you feel then? How would you feel if your 6 year old found your dog laying in the yard half dead? How would you feel if you had to explain it to your child that the dog (in your case) was sick, and went to heaven to be with God? How would you feel if your neighbor told your child that he was going to kill your animal? Cause yes he did tell my 6 year old that. So you tell me how you would console your children every day when they tell you how much they miss their dog.....

If you wouldn't want justice after all that, and wouldn't want justice for the fact that it is an animal, and only knows how to act for the fact that it's instinct. Then maybe you should think twice about being a dog owner.

As far as accusing the neighbor if he wouldn't of threatened the cats, and stray dogs then he never would have been a suspect in my eyes.

P.S. My cats stayed in the vicinity of my yard. They didn't roam throughout the neighborhood. My house is only a few yards away form the neighbors, and if we were allowed fences one would have been put up to contain my animals.

I asked for help not critizm....I buried a family member the other day....if it would have been you asking for help, and I knew where to go I would have helped not critized because your dog pooped in my yard, and I stepped in it.

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horrified by animal abuse

thank you so much for this information. Unfortunatly I buried my cat on Monday, so I doubt he can be preserved now. However I am willing to dig him up if necissary. I will be contacting both places today. They might not be able to help me out, but I won't ever know unless I try.

Thank you for your sympathies. It is greatly appreciated from my family. My three kids are upset about this horrible finding, and hopefully justice will be done.

Thank you again