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Daniel G. Snethen: Two Old Ladies Arrested for Feeding Feral Cats

Two Old Ladies Arrested for Feeding Feral Cats

by Daniel G. Snethen

Damn shame Yellow Mama is retired.

Wetumpka law enforcement

is in dire need of her assistance.

Beverly Roberts, 85 and

Mary Alston, 61 were found

guilty of feeding feral cats

near the courthouse lawn.

Several thousand dollars

of damage was claimed

by Elmore County officials.

Both cat molesters

were fined, arrested,

sentenced and released

on two years of probation.

Both claimed they weren’t

really feeding feral cats,

but were capturing them

to be neutered thus reducing

the feral cat problem

plaguing parts of the Nation.

Apparently, it’s illegal to stand

on private County property

enticing feral cats

with a can of Fancy Feast

in your wrinkled hands.

Besides, such mutilation

and the denial of a cat’s

reproductive rights

just ought to be illegal.

And apparently,

in Wetumpka, Alabama it is.

Daniel G. Snethen is an educator, naturalist, moviemaker, poet, and short story writer from South Dakota. He teaches on the Pine Ridge Reservation at Little Wound High School in the heart of Indian Country. His best friend is his three-legged dog, Knightly, who is a cancer survivor.

Cindy Rosmus originally hails from the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night Fever. Her noir/horror/bizarro stories have been published in the coolest places, such as Shotgun Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Boardwalk, and Rock and a Hard Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama and the art director of Black Petals. She’s published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate. She has recently branched out into photo illustration, under the guidance and mentoring of Ann Marie Rhiel.