Is My Cat a Criminal?
On June 17, 2024 my ten-pound, black fluff-ball of a cat, Ichabod Roswell Carney-Krantz, was sleeping in the bushes in front of my house when he got attacked by a pit bull. Ichabod had a chance to flee to safety, but for reasons that are locked behind his inscrutable yellow eyes, he decided to instead defend himself. In the ensuing melee, the woman who was walking her dog kicked him and the dog bit and flipped him into the air. In a desperate attempt to extricate himself from the situation, Ichabod bit the dog’s owner on the leg. I heard the whole thing unfold and rushed outside. It was over in seconds.
My security camera captured the whole event.
This was just the beginning of a legal drama that will continue to unfold over the next several months.
Pursuing the case will likely take weeks or months. It could cost a lot of money. And it will certainly take up a lot of my time. It will also, potentially, be an amazing educational opportunity to see how the court process works first hand. Even though this is only a cat bite case, I feel intense pressure to take a plea deal that I know in my heart is not the truth of what happened.
I haven’t made a final decision yet. So I'd like to ask what YOU think I should do. Do I hire a world-class legal team, bring in animal behavioral psychologists, build scale models of my property lines, and make this the cat show trial of the century? Or do I play it safe, pay up, and go quietly into the night?
I will take your comments seriously. I still have a few days to make up my mind.
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