Animal Cruelty or Child Abuse? Animal welfare officer removes un-weaned kittens from the mother cat.

When I was around twelve, my mother falsely accused me of abusing the kittens that were in our house

and called the SPCA.  I told her I was not abusing them and she went deaf even  though she

knew I wouldn't lie.

Our cat had kittens that were not weened yet.

All my life I loved cats and especially loved kittens, so I was sitting there next to them all

and petting them and trying to get the kittens used to being touched.

Then I picked one up too high and it started screaming and I put it right back down next to

the mother cat. 

The next thing I knew, my mother was in the door way and said, "Are you abusing those

kittens?  I heard one of them scream."

I said, "I was't abusing them."

She said, "I'm going to call the SPCA," and would not listen to anything I said.

Within twenty minutes, the animal welfare officer was at our house

and he came in the room and just took the kittens with

no conversation and not apparent remorse, like someone had hypnotized him.

He did not even express concern about the mother cat and he did not

even look at the other pets in our house!!

The mother of these poor kittens was left at our house!

She was still nursing those poor kittens!!

Separating these kittens from the mother was an act of gross negligence.

So why did this man who took the kittens not talk the  mother cat as well?

I felt sorry for this poor mother cat when she came back and found her kittens gone!

She went around the house in distress and was trying to give birth to

more kittens by squatting down every place she went.

At the dinner table, with the cat in plain sight, I started yelling at my mother and she

just smiled and seemed all smug that she had made me angry. 

I hate to say it but animal welfare officers are no different from the

police and DHS workers!!

THEY HAVE TO STOP AND TALK AND ASK QUESTIONS

 and find out who is lying and who is telling the truth!!!

They have to check on the other pets someone has!

One time I listened to a worker of this same department talk in front of

our class at school and he said,

"Our job is not to worry about people. People can take care of themselves..."

Well I hate to say it but not they can't!!

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/061098/opl_Wedleadl.html  

If someone is abusing an animal, then something needs to be done with them.

A 12-year-old child who is abusing an animal needs to be seen by a good

practitioner.

I would never deliberately hurt an animal, but what if I had??

It could mean that I would grow up to be an animal abuser with no proper intervention!

For that reason, an animal control officer can not just go in someone's house

and take a litter of kittens without contacting the police and child-protective services!

He also should have taken the nursing mother cat with him so it did not

have to be seperated from her kittens!!

Animal welfare has an obligation to stop and talk with people when they

get a report and they HAVE TO CHECK ON THE OTHER PETS SOMEONE HAS

and in the case of un-weaned kittens, they have to take the mother cat as well.

They did not even ask us how many pets we had in the house.

I am wondering if ignorant practices like this are still common.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/report.cfm 

http://www.psyeta.org/ 

http://ssw.asu.edu/portal/academic/certificates/treating-animal-abuse-certificate 

When the parents are slandering the children that's when someone needs to call DHS.

If someone could deliberately put these animals in this situation

they must not have any conscience and this problem does not get solved by taking

a litter of kittens away from their mother.