LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — 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.”
