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Female psychopath: Texas veterinarian fired after bragging online about killing a cat with a bow and arrow

Arturo Garcia
Raw story
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:37 UTC

A veterinarian in Brenham, Texas lost her job and has allegedly received death threats after posting a picture online of herself with a cat she killed with a bow and arrow, KBTX-TV reported on Friday.

Officials at the Washington Animal Clinic terminated Kristen Lindsey's employment after the picture from her Facebook page surfaced on Thursday. Lindsey can be seen holding the arrow, which is stuck inside the animal's head.

"My first bow kill, lol," she wrote. "The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's [sic] head! Vet of the year award ... Gladly accepted."

Lindsey took down her page after criticism began flooding in, but at one point she bragged that she would not lose her job over killing the cat, stating, "Like someone would get rid of me. I'm awesome!"

Instead, her name was covered up on the facility's sign by Friday afternoon. The clinic reportedly received more than 500 phone calls denouncing Lindsey's actions.

"Our goal now is to go on and try to fix our black eye and hope that people are reasonable and understand that those actions don't anyway portray what we're for here at Washington Animal Clinic," said another veterinarian at the clinic, Bruce Buenger. "We put our heart and soul into this place."

While Lindsey apparently believed that the cat was feral, a local animal rescue organization, True Blue Animal Rescue, identified it as a missing 6-year-old foster cat that had been taken in by a local elderly couple.

The San Antonio Express News reported that Lindsey also faces possible criminal charges for animal abuse.

"This kind of stuff shouldn't happen in our society," Austin County Sheriff Jack Brandes said. "It's a very sad thing. Hopefully we will get to the bottom of it and get the truth, 100 percent truth, and get it to the DA and put it in his hands if it needs to go any further."

WBTX also said on that it disabled comments on its website regarding Lindsey's actions "due to repetitive violations of our terms of use, including death threats made against the veterinarian."

Watch WBTX's report, as aired on Friday, below.

Comment:

Reader Comments

bbrebozo · 2015-04-18T23:20:02Z

Double standard

Look, that someone who worked for a vet would be able to do this kind of act is horrifying to me.
I really love cats.
But, the popular outrage is so ludicrous to me.

Where is the outrage when a deer is killed or a moose, duck, pheasant, etc?
Maybe the rage that followed was because it wasn't a feral cat but was someone's pet.
I can understand that.
But, if it WAS a feral cat, would people have gotten just as outraged because a cat or if a dog - not someone's pet of course - was killed?

Some Indian tribes eat dog. Would there be the same kind of rage over this because of .... what?

ligero · 2015-04-19T00:10:48Z

What double standard? Do you really think she was hunting this cat for meat to feed her family? The fact remains that it was a pet cat. Aside from that, cultural context does matter. She was not planning to eat the cat and if she was, eating a dog or cat is considered rather horrifying to most people. There is nothing ludicrous about the outrage and there is no double standard here.

sottreader · 2015-04-19T00:40:27Z

Kill animals for food - should not be an issue so long as reasonable care is taken to inflict no unnecessary suffering.
Kill animals for protection of people/pets/livestock - ditto.
Kill animals for various utilitarian reasons, e.g., fur/leather/plumage/whatever - ditto.
Kill animals just for "fun"? and then brag about doing so? - Shows callousness and serious lack of empathy for animals that makes her completely unfit for her chosen profession.

lan8r · 2015-04-19T00:41:11Z

Or maybe

the outrage was because she blatantly boasted about her 'kill' with her narcissistic comments "The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's [sic] head! Vet of the year award ... Gladly accepted." and "Like someone would get rid of me. I'm awesome!". So proud of her 'first bow kill' was she.

What purpose did this act serve? If it were a deer, a moose, a pheasant or a duck, it may have fed a family for a dinner or a month. I highly doubt she cooked up this 'feral tomcat' or even offered it to a local Chinese restaurant (facetious).

If she killed a missing family pet, well that is pure evil, if it was actually a feral tomcat, that is still deplorable. Her motive for this 'kill' is psychopathic. And that is why there is so much outrage.

If she so bragged about her first 'bow kill' of a cow in India, there would probably be more that just outrage. And those 'Indian tribes' who eat dogs would probably excommunicate her for her blatant disrespect for life. Her motive for this 'kill' is psychopathic.

Rowan Cocoan · 2015-04-19T02:42:54Z

SOTT War Porn? Take it down!

SOTT War Porn? Take it down!

Is this supposed to be some SOTT anti-psychopathy War Porn - a wrongful tactic in their rightful war against psychopathy? Take it down!

If so then God damn you and your prominent - nay fucking* unavoidable! - FRONT PAGE display at SOTT-dot-net! The above picture is akin to those of soldiers showing off 'war porn' of their dead “enemies.”

So just who is the idiot who saw to it to make that picture is so prominently unavoidable? I would really like to hear that answered.

As if 90+% of SOTT readers - omitting your sundry government ‘monitors’ - don’t already know what psychopaths are about? What they yield? I don't read SOTT to see some anti-psychopathy porn!

If that’s how your points are made, why not add a few up close and personal pics than anyone can find online of, hmm:
- a predator/hellfire drone- bombed and blown apart human? (Known by the video game ‘heroes’ who pull the triggers as ‘bugsplats’ - folks are mostly psychopaths - I’m certain psych testing seeks out those smart but compliant folk who unquestioningly pushed the Milgram lever to “lethal” but I like to hope that at least a few are simply dumb kids who have been manipulated by psychopaths and who will be haunted by their efforts for the rest of their lives.);
- better yet! How about such a formerly living and pregnant ‘bugsplat’ ; perhaps with her shredded (former) fetus half carved from what was her uterus?;
- images of what psychopath Danny rolling did in Gainesville (posing decapitated bodies); or,
- of someone’s poor cat dead on the road.

And, what the hell! - once you’ve gone that far, why not go ahead and copy the msm and enhance some grotesqueries using Photoshop? Such pictures are legion** online; but what are they doing here? Those who seek them should be looking at places designed for such dumbed down visual types who exist on tv, video games and Doritos; not at SOTT!

(And spare me the “you’ve got to see it to know it” or that those any who make such comments ‘can’t handle’ a little picture. Such type sniping is sadly so common these days that one must make - even at SOTT! - anticipatory defensive statements like what follows.

Yes, I've seen, up close and in person, plenty of death, which includes the human animal. These have included beloved human and animal friends, and also persons and critters to me unknown. I’ve likewise stitched up folks when no one else present would or could do so. (It’s like trying to hand sew back together a bleeding chunk of halfway cut-through steak with its hide still attached.)

I’ve sadly but likely seen more death than 3/4ths of the commentators here - yet will defer to the surgical folks and combat vets -but that doesn’t mean I read this site for such, and I’m confident when I say that neither do nor would they! Moreover, as to those lucky enough to have ended up in the lowest quartile of that irrelevant “issue”: they have every right to make the same complaint!

Finally, if the photograph is so critical to the matter (it’s not!) you have in the past politely advised folks before they are forced to see such - that is common courtesy in a polite society and in polite discussion, which is effective discussion, which is what I thought SOTT was about.) Jesus Christ! You folks are more protective about providing ‘spoiler alerts’ regarding films than you are at warning folks that they are about to see something that they would rather not.

R.C.

* Oh no! Is that word prohibited as “obscene”? There’s no way it even comes close to the picture so prominently displayed. (And I don’t believe I’ve ever cursed in any comment here without plenty of ***’s.)

** Word chosen with intent.

P.s., Though not a hunter and not a vegetarian, my family has more of the former than the latter. "If you kill it, you eat it." ( Assuming that "the elderly couple" would NOT be ok with that, then I recommend that she consume the next humane society feline 'put to sleep,' as similarly discussed above.

RC

Leonarda · 2015-04-19T16:36:27Z

Maybe this horrible act will make people put 2 and 2 together. If a veterinarian is capable of doing this and feel proud of it, lack of remorse, just imagine what human health "professionals" can and actually DO to human beings.