Ariz. Humane Society changes policies after cat killed

[moriah]

18. Read my longer post about this, I edited my original n/t.

You are misconstruing the timeline. They had no legal right to hold the cat before papers were signed. They actually were bound by law NOT to hold the animal unless payment was made or the cat was surrendered! Because you can't just go around kidnapping other people's property without just cause.

If they had threatened to report him for animal abuse if he had taken her to another clinic, the only way they could have legally gotten their hands on that cat without the owner's consent, I guarantee you'd have seen that in the original article on the case from the Arizona Republic, the one that came out before the Humane Society of Arizona told the owner his cat was dead.

After she was surrendered, she was taken to a different clinic. That was the clinic that could not legally return her when they realized they would have to euthanize her. Because they were legally responsible for her welfare.