The Walton County Sherrif’s office has failed to act in the wake of the brutal shooting of a cat by a Freeport, Fla., resident.
Alley Cat Allies had asked the Walton County Sheriff’s office to investigate an act of animal cruelty in late August after a resident fatally shot MommaCat, a beloved orange tabby who lived with her colony as part of a local Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program near his residence. The sheriff’s office announced Friday it has declined to charge the resident. Though the cat’s caregivers saw the resident shoot MommaCat twice at close range, the sheriff’s office chose to interpret the killing as “not inhumane,” deciding that it “did not result in a cruel death to an animal.”
Read the press release.