Glenn Rice and Don Bradley have the full story here about Tobey, a 19-year-old house cat that was put down by Raymore police who mistakenly thought he was feral and diseased. (The cat wasn't wearing his tags and had gotten out of the house somehow. His owners say he was deaf, declawed, weighed 6 pounds and had his own card at the pharmacy.)

On Thursday, Wesner questioned why, if police suspected Tobey had rabies, they would shoot him in the head when the brain would be needed for testing. And then dispose of the body without doing any testing.

“We do not know what they were thinking,” Wesner said Thursday.

City Manager Eric Berlin told the mayor and council members in a memo that the city should reconsider its procedures for euthanizing animals because protocol was not followed in this case. Some of the confusion may have arisen, he said, because the incident occurred on a holiday.

He also said Tobey may have appeared to officers to be diseased because he was wet.