Sounds like these people are hoping the City of Las Vegas et al will compensate them for the cost of the cats AND their significant pain and suffering.
These people don’t care about their cats. If they did, they wouldn’t leave them wander out where there might be stray dogs.
Doesn’t take a pit to kill a cat. If my shepherd mix could have caught Dad’s cat, he’d have killed him. Some dogs just hate them.
There is a stray outside that we feed (our pet cats are indoor only because, yes, outdoors is dangerous for cats). A next door neighbor has an aggressive German Shepherd that’s killed ground hogs. If the cat wandered into that dog’s yard and got killed, I wouldn’t blame the dog or the dog owner. If, on the other hand, the German Shepherd were wandering the neighborhood with another dog ripping several cats apart, I’d want the dog gone and possibly put down. A dog protecting it’s turf or it’s owner is one thing. Roving dogs killing things are something very different.