Man Gets Ticket After Cat Refuses to Go on a Jog

A case of feline fitness gone wrong: Colorado police have ticketed a man who is accused of tying his cat to a rock after it refused to go jogging. Sgt. Fred Palmer says 19-year-old Seth Franco brought his cat on a leash to a path at a Lafayette park on Wednesday, but the cat was unable to keep up. Rather than call it quits and head home, a witness told police that Franco secured the cat's leash to a rock while he finished his run—where birds reportedly began to attack it.

Police were called, and a Lafayette ordinance "prohibits that kind of tethering," so Franco was ticketed on suspicion of "domestic animal cruel treatment." The cat wasn't injured, so it was released to him. (More strange stuff stories.)