Mayor of Huntingdon, Que., Apologizes for Discussing Having Killed Cats

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The mayor of Huntingdon, Que., Stephane Gendron officially published a public apology on his radio show’s website after eagerly talking about killing cats on his radio show. The open letter published on his show’s website quoted him of apologizing for his “dark humour” at the time when he discussed running over stray cats with his truck.

During the broadcast of Mayor’s show on CHOI 91.9 Radio X, he mentioned that “first of all, cats have no business being in the road.” He added that “of it’s a stray cat in the road, bang, I accelerate,” while sharing that “the other day I backed up over a newborn and I’m sure it didn’t feel a thing. The pickup passed over him like it was nothing.” However, later in his public apology issued on Sunday, he expressed regret over his inflammatory comments, which he claimed were overly “exaggerated” and had done nothing to do with the issue of animal control in his small community. Gendron stated “I made largely exaggerated comments on the overpopulation of cats that constitutes a nuisance in our urban and rural areas.” He added that “I admit that the imagery used served no purpose in advancing the debate on this issue.”

Mayor’s apology has come at a time when the SPCA had announced having opened an investigation into him. SPCA’s director of animal welfare stated that “I believe that he did state that he enjoyed speeding up and did so when he saw a cat coming and that he had backed over a cat that had just given birth and I believe he talked about seeing kittens starve or die of thirst.”