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Biloxi Woman Sentenced to Community Service for Hoarding Cats

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Updated: 12/11/2012 10:48 pm
(BILOXI, Miss.) - A Biloxi woman was sentenced to 100 hours of community service after being convicted of hoarding cats.

78-year-old Dawn Summers was found guilty of harboring more than six adult animals over the age of six months, which violates a City of Biloxi ordinance.

Officials said Summers, who also owns three dogs, is a caretaker of a colony of feral cats, which she had spayed, neutered, and vaccinated for rabies.

The estimated 12-20 cats push her over the six domesticated animal limit.

Summers was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and two years probation.

Her attorney said she plans to appeal the conviction.

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NatureAdvocate - 12/13/2012 8:13 PM
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Stray-Cat Feeders TRAIN Feral Cats To Attack Humans -- These cat-lovers always like to claim that feral cats run away from humans, and therefore aren't the cause of all the thousands of new rabies cases. Google for: feral cat attack rabies Don't be surprised at the numbers of search-hits you get, nor the thousands of horrendous stories that go with them. The numbers of rabies cases or required rabies shots caused by free-roaming cats have been exponentially growing as fast as the cats breed. These stray-cat feeders are TRAINING these disease-infested cats to approach humans for food. And what happens when that child (or foolish adult) doesn't have food and reaches down to "pet the cute kitty" or pick it up to try to take it home? The cat lashes out and bites or scratches the hand that has no food for them. That means MANDATORY $1000+ painful rabies shots for the child (or any adult that is just as ignorant and naive). Paid for out of their OWN pockets -- because NOT ONE of these cat-feeders carries one penny of liability insurance for the DEADLY danger they bring to their communities. These are just the diseases they've been spreading to humans, not counting the ones they spread to all wildlife. THERE ARE NO VACCINES against many of these, and are in-fact listed as bio-terrorism agents. They include: Campylobacter Infection, Cat Scratch Disease, Coxiella burnetti Infection (Q fever), Cryptosporidium Infection, Dipylidium Infection (tapeworm), Hookworm Infection, Leptospira Infection, Giardia, Plague, Rabies, Ringworm, Salmonella Infection, Toxocara Infection, Toxoplasma. [Centers for Disease Control, July 2010] Sarcosporidiosis, Flea-borne Typhus, Tularemia, and Rat-Bite Fever can now also be added to that list.

Heimdal - 12/12/2012 6:48 AM
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Community service ??? ... I thought that was what she was doin' already.

joesmith - 12/12/2012 4:23 AM
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Pets are better than people so why not punish trash who have 2-3 parties of rif raf in a home instead ?
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