The Cat Did It: WilCo off the Hook in Shelter probe

From The Austin Chronicle, June 13, 2008...

Blame the victim, shoot the messenger, shift the focus, and stall as long as possible.

Judging by a case report issued in May by the Williamson Co. Sheriff's Office, that strategy dominated the county's protracted, 10-month probe into allegations of animal cruelty and neglect at the Williamson Co. Regional Animal Shelter. But WilCo Sheriff Detective John Foster is quick to defend his office's investigation, which effectively found nothing amiss at the shelter despite a series of animal deaths that sparked outcries from animal rights activists across Texas. "The case was not taken lightly," he told the Chronicle. "No time limit was given."

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