Principal Shoots Kittens
Mr. Wade Pilloud, principal of the K-12 school in Indus, Minnesota, has resigned after shooting and killing two kittens whose mother was killed in an animal trap.
"Pilloud said the shooting, which occurred on school grounds, endangered no one."
Um, what about the kittens?
And to add insult to killing, the acting sheriff, John Mastin, said he could be charged with felony possession of a firearm on school property and reckless discharge of a firearm, which is a misdemeanor, as it put no one in danger.
Um, what about the kittens?
The sheriff accused Mastin of using "poor discretion and poor timing," considering our country’s problems with gun violence in our schools.
But the kittens . . . . When are we going to get to the kittens?
The article not only says nothing about possible cruelty, it consistently says no one was in danger. It also says nothing about what can happen when traps made to catch and mutiliate certain animals, trap others, instead. What if a child was caught in the trap? The entire country would be calling for the banning of animal traps.
Pilloud has bred cats and isn’t a cat hater, according to e-mails he
wrote to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I did not want the animals to
suffer." But he could have easily taken the kittens to a humane society or to animal control. I don’t for a minute believe that he didn’t want to shoot them; it makes no sense. The title of the article is "Principal who shot kittens could face felony charges." But that’s misleading, because his charges have nothing to do with killing the kittens.
Why?