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Police in Lafayette, Colo., have ticketed a man who is accused of tying his cat to a rock after the feline refused to go jogging.
Sgt. Fred Palmer says 19-year-old Seth Franco brought his cat on a leash to the path around Waneka Lake Park on Wednesday, but the cat was unable to keep up.
According to the Boulder Daily Camera ( http://bit.ly/ysr3qe), witnesses told police that Franco secured the cat's leash to a rock while he finished his run. A passer-by called police.
Franco was ticketed on suspicion of "domestic animal cruel treatment," a municipal offense.
Palmer says an ordinance in the city, about 20 miles north of Denver, "prohibits that kind of tethering."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/15/national/a075658D44.DTL
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Who takes their cat out for a jog?
auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)It's been going around since yesterday so I've seen it a couple times, but it screams "THE ONION" at you, doesn't it? Sometimes you can't make these things up.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)the idea of tethering any cat is strange to me. I know some say that their cat(s) can be but most would end up like this:
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)It's a big old fat thing that has diabetes and the vet has explicitly told us that the cat needs to be exercised...so we take him jogging and if he doesn't want to jog he gets prodded along until he relents.