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Duer 157099

(17,742 posts) Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:20 PM Mar 2012

Colo. man ticketed after cat refuses to go for jog

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?

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Colo. man ticketed after cat refuses to go for jog (Original Post) Duer 157099 Mar 2012 OP

I laugh every time I see this story auburngrad82 Mar 2012 #1

Seth Franco, apparently dana_b Mar 2012 #2

Best comment: "Cats don't 'jog'. They exhibit incredible bursts of speed interrupted by long naps." charlie and algernon Mar 2012 #3

My uncle has a cat that we have to jog. Chan790 Mar 2012 #4

auburngrad82

(5,029 posts)

1. I laugh every time I see this story

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:31 PM

Mar 2012

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)

2. Seth Franco, apparently

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:36 PM

Mar 2012

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)

3. Best comment: "Cats don't 'jog'. They exhibit incredible bursts of speed interrupted by long naps."

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Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:37 PM

Mar 2012

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

4. My uncle has a cat that we have to jog.

Reply to Duer 157099 (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 03:38 PM

Mar 2012

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.

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