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.

Mayor Gale Katchur's comments came during a committee meeting on Tuesday that outlined solutions for managing feral cats in Fort Saskatchewan.