Omg Ziggy Shot, Now A Yorkie, shooting of random pets in neighbourhood Options

[Zita'sMom]

I just went to put a new poster up to "Ziggy's shooter" on the local mailboxes - there are two main mailboxes in our area, three if you go a bit further, and there is another sign. "A Psycho shot our Yorkie".

Apparently the dog was shot in the flank and bled heavily. This is not next door, but in the same rural area. Whoever shot Ziggy is out to kill more pets.

Zita went missing in October and many other signs for missing cats have appeared on mailboxes. I will go to talk to the people with the Yorkie tomorrow and to the constable in charge as well as to the newspapers and television station. I will be posting more flyers.

I can't even express in words how angry, drained, shocked and devastated I am. We live in a very, very dangerous area for our pets and I don't know what to do. My pets are my life!

The extension of our "dream house" on a beautiful acreage has drained us in health, finances and many personal costs/sacrifices, but losing the cats is the absolute worst. Knowing the shooter is out looking for more prey is... oh my God, I am just sick.

We have 5 dogs all rescues, now just one cat (3 dead all under 5 years old since 2006). Our old border collie sometimes gets onto the road. This person / people is sick, sick, sick. I just don't know what to do. Moving is not yet an option because the reno's aren't even complete. This is a total nightmare!

I live in a war zone. Even if we leave, someone is out there shooting innocent pets and other creatures for the pure entertainment of watching an animal fight for it's life... This is not accidental, there is no way a Yorkie looks like a squirrel or a rodent (and shooting them is sick enough as it is).

sick, sick, sick.

My heart hurts. What can I do? This has to stop.

Jan.

[Furkidlets' Mom]

Jan,

...there are elections coming soon. It might be the time to see what candidates are doing for animal cruelty laws.

If you do want to find out more quickly and easily, first see this link to WSPA's site, read the party leader's responses to WSPA's questions, then go to their "Write Your Candidates" section, fill in your address and you'll get a template letter you can send, either as is or edited to add something else (like maybe your own, personal story and these pathetic laws, apathy, etc.) to any of the ones you want to in your area (the candidates in your area, based on your address, are also shown once you fill that address info. in).

Here's the link for you: Vote For Animals - WSPA

It absolutely sickens me the way that law enforcement never seems to care, and it's the same in our town. It's only when it's a big media story (say, in Calg.) that anything much happens, and even then, it's the people behind the scenes that try to keep things going.....and even so, most offenders get off on technicalities/loopholes in our antiquated laws here. Or they're "young offenders" who can't be tried in adult court, so they get probation or something equally useless. (Canada ranked dead last in a comparison with something like 13 other countries' animal welfare laws - abysmally shocking!)

There was a poor cat in AB, not too far from here, who was microwaved by a bunch of teenagers over last Christmas when her family went away and left her at home alone. It was too sickening for words, what they did and what went on. I had day-mares for weeks and still can't think about it for very long. But the story's just pretty much died out now, even though no justice has been laid for her horrible death, and probably never will be. I'm afraid that if I was a member of that cat's family, one or more of those little punks would be dead by my own hand by now.....I just don't even know how people survive after things like this, or like Ziggy's death. I'd be a total basket-case. So the fact that you're trying SO hard.....it's totally commendable and you deserve all the praise and encouragement in the world!