Homeless cats live very short brutal lives whose end is often of great agony from getting hit by cars, dying slowly of diseases; people also deliberately poison them.  Cats prolifically perpetuate their kind by not spay/neutering, that a quick death from gunfire or other means may seem more humane. However, please also consider also a large glut of people who take pleasure in animal cruelty and will interpret the law as they see fit as the State's blessing to skin alive, torture, and kill with agony homeless cats and kittens. They will also kill them with bow hunting, which is extremely agonizing and slow. 

Gene Baierschmidt, Executive Director of the Humane Society of Utah believes that the bill will be a huge mistake and will only, "open the door for a lot of abuse to take place."

(ps: IF YOU DO NOT USE A UTAH ZIP CODE-DON'T BOTHER SIGNING IT. IT WILL GO NO WHERE. IF YOU DON'T LIVE IN UTAH USE THE CITY, STATE ZIP CODE

CLEARFIELD, UT 84089)

SO HB 120  will legalize any loony to torture and snuff cats:

http://www.peta.org/issues/Companion-Animals/animal-abuse-and-human-abuse-partners-in-crime.aspx

"Albert DeSalvo (the “Boston Strangler”), who killed 13 women, trapped dogs and cats and shot arrows at them through boxes in his youth.(6) Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer impaled frogs, cats, and dogs’ heads on sticks.(7) Dennis Rader (the BTK killer), who terrorized people in Kansas, wrote in a chronological account of his childhood that he hanged a dog and a cat.(8) During the trial of convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, a psychology professor testified that the teenager, who killed 10 people with a rifle, had “pelted—and probably killed—numerous cats with marbles from a slingshot when he was about 14.”(9) "

FBI AND LEADING CRIMINOLOGIST ALL AGREE the enjoyment of torturing and killing animals fits serial killer profiling and violent criminals.

http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/reprint/30/2/257.pdf

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 30:257–65, 2002

"A history of animal cruelty during childhood was significantly associated with APD [Antisocial Personality Disorder], antisocial personality traits, and polysubstance abuse. Mental retardation, psychotic disorders, and alcohol abuse showed no such association."

Also please consider a "feral cat" may just be someone's pet-even indoor cat--who accidentally wandered outside and got snuffed-is surely a cause for litigation for the perpetrator, the Counties including State.

To avoid litigation and distressing the nation at large, it is recommended to drop HB 210.

SOLUTIONS:

Please consider low cost_free spay/neuter legislation. Florida and California has a spay/neuter license tag whose revenue goes toward spay/neuter organizations and is very successful.

See:

http://www.floridaanimalfriend.org/

You may also propose an animal cruelty/animal ordinance violation surcharge: For each violation a $20 surcharge to go toward spay/neuter organizations. COST of spay/neutering is the key to get more people to fix their animal.

Thank you for your time and reading.

Sincerely,