Wow, it is extremely amazing to me how only one person who has read my post asking how they would kill a possum has accused me of “torturing” animals.
Well, if you read my Active Christian Media blog then you may have heard of Kevin Kaatz – yeah, that’s the guy. Kevin loves to lie about people, in particular me and Peter LaBarbera because me and Peter believe that the way Kevin lives his life is sinful.
Kevin recently said on his blog that I’m an animal torturer because my husband and I decided to put this little injured possum in a bag and hang it on a nail above our house, so my dogs couldn’t get it and finish killing it.
Kevin thinks that us putting it in the bag is torture. The reality is that it was almost 11 PM and animal control was closed for the night. I asked my husband if he wanted to take the animal in the bag and drive it someplace and he opted not to, because it was so late.
Not only that, but the bag wasn’t tied tightly, in fact it was barely tied at all, just enough to hang it where the dogs couldn’t get it.
But here’s the thing – either Kevin can’t clearly read English – or he simply likes to slander me, by calling what I did animal torture, that’s slander.
Let me remind you of what torture means:
1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
2. a method of inflicting such pain.
3. Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
4. extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
5. a cause of severe pain or anguish.
–verb (used with object)
Let me remind you of what slander means:
1. defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
2. a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
3. Law. defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter slander against; defame.
–verb (used without object)
5. to utter or circulate slander.
Now let’s look at the facts and review just so Kevin gets it.
First, of all I love animals and the goal was to preserve this possum’s life. All one has to do is read the whole blog post, but as is typical of Kevin, he always seems to get it backwards. Note to file, he has sex with men. His very lifestyle is backwards.
Secondly, the possum was able to get out of the bag precisely because it wasn’t tied tight. We planned it that way.
Third, I actually rescued the animal because my husband wanted to kill it, to put it out of its misery because my dogs had already hurt it pretty badly.
Fourth, the possum wasn’t hung up on some fence – Kevin made that up out of thin air.
The bottom line is that this is evidence that Kevin simply can’t tell the truth. But I can tell you honestly, Kevin Kaatz is definitely a slanderer.
