In the clip, the mayor recalls the “old days on the farm” when people “threw (cats) in a bag and threw them in the river or they just put them on the exhaust pipes.” “I grew up on a farm. I know what happened back then, and there wasn’t emotion tied to it,” Katchur said.

The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., has apologized after she was criticized for musing about the “old days” of managing feral cats by throwing them in the river or gassing them with a vehicle’s exhaust pipe.

The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., has apologized after she was criticized for musing about the "old days" of managing feral cats by thr.

FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA—Animal Justice, Canada’s leading national animal law organization, is appalled by Fort Saskatchewan Mayor Gale Katchur’s comments made during a city committee meeting earlier this week.

The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan apologized on Thursday for comments she made earlier this week about killing feral cats.