Well, that's the last time I post anything of a remotely important nature on this website.
The total lack of compassion and gleeful throwing of stones in this thread is heartbreaking and utterly disgusting.
I'd love to see the city ordinances for all of the stone-throwers and hear about how they follow the law to the letter. By all means, all of you should invite animal control into your homes to make sure that you're not breaking the law either, since you feel confident enough to judge Thomas over this. I'd sure hate for anyone to go through what Thomas is going through, but apparently there are a lot of perfect people in here that are totally comfortable and familiar with their own city/county laws, to the point where they look down on other people for not being as educated as they are.
Thomas, I should have known better than to expect support from here. I'm sorry for any additional headache I have caused you while you are already working so hard on this. I made a similar thread on another website that has only had positive feedback thus far. I'll send you the link to that.