According to the “Justice for Tiger” people, the Grand Jury is meeting on June 24th. They’re planning a protest at the courthouse for that day.
But I’d be very surprised if the DA presented it.
Me, too.
About the only way that they could develop a prosecutable case against Dr. Lindsey would be her serving up inculpatory statements to the sheriff’s deputies when interviewed.
And since, as I understand it, she was represented by counsel by the time the sheriff interviewed her, I am pretty sure that didn’t happen.
I must be getting tired. I’ve posted in this thread, read it, etc.
But lately, everytime I see it in the forum list, I read: Vegetarian brags about killing a cat. And I go: WTF?
I am surprised!
Now I can upgrade to being skeptical they have enough evidence to go forward.
Now the long wait to see what the TX vet board does.
The “Justice for Tiger” Facebook page seems to have been removed.
Maybe someone shot it.
Regards,
Shodan
Facebook supposedly removed the original page because of complaints. But here’s another one. They’re saying they’re being harassed by Lindsey supporters.
With a .17 HMR.
I see from the article that 50 cats is the cutoff between TNR and TE. If I read the article correctly, it involved more simulation than measurement. Also, it included parameters for the utility of animal welfare groups. That’s fine and well, but I have some concern about whether changing such values would give dramatically different results. To be fair, they did run a sensitivity analysis. Too bad the tables weren’t included online.
This is just one study of course. IMHO, if endangered species are involved, then a more aggressive trap-euthenize and/or hunt/shoot program would be appropriate (if effective). Outdoor cats have been shown to be voracious consumers of wildlife, even if otherwise well fed. I have little love for them.
Example citation: Wildlife Management Institute
I clicked the link in the OP out of a dubious sense of responsibility. I’m all for killing feral cats if such activity is grounded on defensible science, but I found her conduct unprofessional and worthy of non-legal sanction.
No word, as yet, from the Texas vet board.
In other news, no parrots died today on the M60 motorway.
From the (admittedly sketchy) Justice for Tiger FB page today:
The board is apparently required to send out updates every 30 days to everyone who submits a formal complaint. Dealing with this must suck for them. Cat people are crazy.
I’m curious about the other folks that, earlier in this thread, seemed to be arguing strongly that Dr. Lindsey would get criminal sanctions and lose her license.
(I don’t include camille in that group, since while she obviously wanted some outcome like that, I got the sense that her questions were much more focused on why it wouldn’t happen, as opposed to refusing to accept that it wouldn’t happen. And obviously you, steronz, had the courage of your convictions to risk a real world wager.)
But the rest of you?
I’m not a cat person in any sense of the word, in spite the unholy number of cats I do own. But I do own them, they are my personal property. It is a crime to destroy someone else’s property without permission, whether it’s a car, a bike, a fence or a cat.
Also in some jurisdictions, the only lawful way to kill a cat is by overdose of barbiturates … one just can’t go around shooting cats.
I hope this clarifies why some would argue that the vet should get criminal sanctions and loose her license in Texas.
That’s just what the cats want you to think. 
I listen and obey, gives me a certain level of peace.
I posted 4 times in the thread. I wish she had been given criminal sanctions, though I don’t believe I argued that she would. I hope that she is sanctioned in some way professionally - beyond losing her job and the statements issued by the AVMA, when it happened and when the no-bill was reached. I don’t know if that statement was linked here, sohere it is. The later post is really more “hey, the ACMA wasn’t consulted in that process, so we were surprised our guidelines were referenced. Here are our guidelines.”
Take this with a spoonful of salt, I’m not convinced HuffPo’s source is anyone other than the same Facebook crazies I’m following, but…