@vriska nah, they shoot dogs because they're scared, no one is scared of kittens, and their suggestion to kill it was actually made out of concern, which just goes to show how they think everything can be solved by shooting.

@vriska it still could've been fear motivated, the dog was offleash presumably, the cats were in a carrier and utterly helpless. it's not the same. i've never heard of police shooting a dog in a crate, or a cat deliberately. i'm not saying it's not informed by a callous disregard for life but keep it realistic.

@vriska lemme check

@vriska can't find the thread but i did read that through a 24/7 emergency vet hotline they found someone to care for them who would split costs with the humane society, and who said the kitten would likely survive the night until it could be taken it because his condition seemed stable.

@vriska i think so ^^

@shmibs @vriska is there anything violence can't solve

@why if you see a dying creature the correct response is to try to save it, not to justify not having concern for a living thing by r/k reproduction strategies. as for the police, OP was told sheriffs would be coming to address the problem. they didn't, so they went to the source. it was naive but should they have given up instead?

@why if there was an imperative to adopt wounded animals many fewer people would report their existence. think about the results of what you suggest. the animal control and police dispatches are linked. OP continually asked the sherrifs office to transfer to animal control. when that failed, and when police never sent a sheriff, i'm sure they thought going to the police themselves could get the kittens to animal control faster. of course, this was all likely caused by a new years eve office party.

@cowanon @why did you forget that after you adopt it you have to care for it until it dies

@why i considered that last part too, it's a very good point. i tried caring for a baby snapping turtle sunning in a footpath until it was old enough to have a good chance but my step dad didn't want to buy what ended up being a critical thing (i didn't have a credit card to access my money then despite asking) and i feared it would drown without a rock it could climb on (he thought i could just find one but it was too young it needed a dock made for easy climbing). i didn't want it to die overnight (another reptile slash amphibian death on my hands would be very traumatic, i had an experience where i accidentally killed a tadpole when i was thirteen by not cooling the water i had boiled to remove the chemicals. so i wanted to take it to a place the petco guy recommended with lots of food and cover and few predators, but my mom just said where it came from is fine (because she knew where that was), why would its mother leave it someplace dangerous. i lost a shoe in sucking mud delivering it by the river. i donated the maximum donation of a hundred dollars to a local turtle rescue program that admonished readers against adopting baby turtles and convinced me i could return it. of course weeks later i saw it squished flat with a footprint in it, dying in the exact manner i had feared, from the state of its body probably at least ten days before. i buried it near the river and took a picture of the location. it was awful and i was very angry at my family at first till i realized they had no bad intentions, they just wanted what they thought would work and what convenient. what sucks is i feel guilty still because i didn't notice it couldn't properly get to the rock, because i had planned to see my half brother for weeks that day at my grandmas retirement community i wish i had known there was a lake with turtles there, because while it likely would've died as most baby turtles do it would've died and nourished another organism. not met its end by an oblivious pedestrian. it was awful.

@why it makes me very sad to think i was the only creature to have ever noticed it and cared for it however briefly. turtles never meet their mothers.

@why i want to elaborate that the water wasn't boiling hot it was just too warm. i guess that made the death slower :(