I hadn’t seen your theory and had posted as if I had figured this out. I use to own cats and only figured that the “method” was a device to allow the cat out that was no longer at the scene...it can only logically be the mauled body. It was danggled in, the cat used it as a scratching post, scratched up and out with several people trying tp pull screaming person out and what we ended up with angry free tiger in mouth of free tiger and 2 bloody people running for the cafe (scent) and the origanal pull toy was left dead at the exhibit.