Utah boy's letter: 'Grown-ups killed my kitty'

By Shannon Dininny

Associated Press

Published: Friday, Oct. 5 2012 10:42 p.m. MDT

Summary

An 8-year-old Utah boy wrote a letter to his local newspaper after an animal shelter worker failed to write a note to save his cat from being euthanized: "Yesterday grown-ups killed my kitty, my best friend, when they weren't supposed to."

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Economist

Salt Lake City, UT

WElcome. Welcome to Adulthood. Imagined that you would arrive here much later than expected...

11:52 p.m. Oct. 5, 2012
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My2Cents

Taylorsville, UT

This is why animals should not be humanized with emotional attachments. The mother is wrong in letting this boy write this letter and she has just created another problem child for society to deal with as he gets older. She has just allowed her son More..

5:09 a.m. Oct. 6, 2012
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Dektol

Powell, OH

Why not state "Killed" rather than trying to clean it up with "Euthanized"? Trying to use words your readers don't understand?

6:09 a.m. Oct. 7, 2012
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