Posted on 09/11/2020 4:44:33 PM PDT by packrat35
IN a quiet market town, distraught cat owners comb the streets, occasionally calling out their pets’ names.
Lamp posts bear the tattered corners of posters where home-made “missing” appeals were hung.
The ones still intact remind residents of a macabre history.
In the past few weeks, TEN cats have gone missing in Cinderford, Gloucs, making locals fear a return of the town’s “cat killers” of 2016.
Then, it was thought a vile gang was snatching cats as part of a gruesome initiation ceremony, killing the animals or mutilating them so horribly they had to be put down.
Grandmother Carole Harris, 56, is worried about her 13-year-old puss, Denzel.
She said: “Have these cats gone off and died somewhere, or have they been taken?
“You just wonder about anybody passing by who stops to pet a cat.”
Carole remembers the horrific cat killings four years ago and worries it could be happening again.
She said: “It has made me much more worried about my cat.
“When I heard about what that gang was doing to those poor cats a few years ago, that kind of thing kills me.
“You just don’t know if that gang is making a comeback in the town. It is really worrying.
“Our cat is very much part of the family. I don’t know what I would do.”
Sounds as if someone’s pet coyote(s) have gotten loose.
Youtube animal abuse channels that youtube won’t do anything about until outrage makes them.
I’d suspect a llink.
We had a feral cat problem in one town we lived in and found one dead under the neighbor’s porch.
The animal control guy came and got it and said it was the 19th one he had to pick up in recent weeks. He suspected someone was poisoning them but nobody really ever bothered to run tests to find out.
We miss our furry friends.
Maybe they should check to see if the area has a new Chinese restaurant nearby.
Moggie is British term for cats.
Roger, copy that. Tnks!
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