Man Jailed for Feeding Stray Cats

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GAINESVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) - A Gainesville man chooses jail over paying fines he considers unjust. David Parton just finished spending nine days in the Cooke County Correctional Center rather than pay $900 in fines for illegally feeding stray cats in Gainesville.
“God told me to keep feeding them and leave the consequences to Him,” Parton told CBS 11 News. He claims he’s been called to feed Gainesville’s stray cats for nearly a decade. But the clandestine feedings have earned him citation after city citation, and finally 900-dollars in fines. Which he refused to pay.
“Oh, no, if I had a million dollars I wouldn’t have paid it Hell, no. No!” he exclaimed.
“And I told them I’d sit it out in jail. I did, that’s why I went to jail, I wouldn’t pay the fine. That law is not right.” But while he was in… some of the cats’ hidey-holes were boarded up. Parton tells CBS 11 News he was feeding nine cats at one of his five locations before he went to jail, but that was nine days without them being fed. He says there are none here now, and he fears the worst.

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