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(Not sure when this happened. But it makes you go...what?!)
Dallas Police found themselves dealing with one of their strangest cases in recent memory when a 47-year-old woman fatally shot her husband in defense of the family cat.
The scene unfolded when the confessed shooter, Mary Harrison, decided she could no longer watch her husbands repeat abuse of the family cat. Marys now-deceased husband, Dexter Harrison, allegedly beat the animal so frequently that it finally ran away.
Worried sick, Mary plastered their Dallas neighborhood with missing pet pictures until a well-meaning neighbor eventually located the animal. Unfortunately, Dexter resumed his abuse as soon as the cat was returned home, which led his frustrated wife to finally shoot him in an effort to stop it. But when Dexter died of his injuries en route to the hospital, Mary was subsequently accused of his murder.
Social media, meanwhile, remains divided over this punishment. Some people accused Mary of overreacting by prioritizing the cats life over her husbands. Others, including animal advocates who set up a Gofundme page to cover Marys legal expenses, contend she acted valiantly on behalf of an innocent feline.
https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/woman-shot-husband-cat/
XanaDUer2
(10,857 posts)Just a cat
North Shore Chicago
(3,347 posts)"Not Guilty"
Reason? Self (cat) defense.
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)SarahD
(1,330 posts)People who abuse their pets are loathsome.
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)I'd suggest those saying "it's only a cat," think a little longer and harder--as I'd bet will the jury if there is ANY doubt.
LisaL
(44,985 posts)She got probation.
https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/local/north-texas-woman-gets-probation-for-killing-her-husband
jimfields33
(16,145 posts)She deserves jail time for taking a life. However, instead of life in prison, Id recommend 25 years with parole eligibility at 20 years if she has good behavior in jail. This way she is rightfully punished but not completely without a life after.
LisaL
(44,985 posts)25 years my a$$.
Sounds to me that her husband was up to no good.
https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/local/north-texas-woman-gets-probation-for-killing-her-husband
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)who didn't bother with listening to the evidence. I don't know that that is the case here, but surely, Jim, you wouldn't mind inquiring and asking for the results of any ongoing investigation before you throw away the key to her cell?
I know it is merely a "woman" and a "cat," but surely we haven't gone so far--at least on DU--so as to convict before any countering evidence to the contrary of a desire for retribution?
LisaL
(44,985 posts)She got probation.
https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/local/north-texas-woman-gets-probation-for-killing-her-husband
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)for some here.
I guess there will be another accused/abused woman to burn at the stake in the future...
Baitball Blogger
(46,780 posts)If she only received probation, it's likely that there was evidence of domestic abuse.
Or the judge was a cat lover.
sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,761 posts)Having a gun around is not always good; unless one is feeling that others' lives are worth less than a feline's, so to speak.
XanaDUer2
(10,857 posts)petronius
(26,613 posts)any legal consequences.
But thank you to those who added the additional details here (and the news that the cat survived)!
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)Vinca
(50,334 posts)soldierant
(6,965 posts)but there have been as long as I can reemember, and there still are, people who say 'it's only a cat" (or "it's only a dog" - or "it;s only whatever" They need to be sat down and asked, if someone 's child died, would you say "It's only a child"? If not, then STFU.
"Prioritizing the cat's life over her husband." Damn right. I cn guarantee the cat never beat up anyone, breaking ribs and jaw.
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Omaha Steve
(99,879 posts)CAN be posted in GD.
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