Posted on 08/31/2018 8:07:56 PM PDT by Mariner
Or bird lover who is sick and tired of stray cats killing every thing they can.
Next will be people. This is how it starts.
Foxes like eating cats too.
I believe there was a article posted about this subject a few weeks ago. I recall it mentioned hanging the cats in trees. Coyotes raccoons, owls don’t usually hang their prey in trees. It’s a human predator doing this.
Better “nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”.
ALF,
that’s correct!
He “likes” Cats,
Yellow ones
IIRC.
“Nature is a Restaurant”.
Did you know some owls aren’t that wise?
When they catch the person, send them to Ethiopia.
Screech Owls- about 6 inches tall, gray or reddish brown, very tolerant of people, like to hang out n cool dark places during the day. I have a few that frequent my wood shed ( an extension of my barn) where I first saw them I added a 2x4 across the ceiling so they could have a nicer perch. They show up in the fall and hand out all winter. Keeping the mice a bay I suppose. They stay there while I load the wagon with wood for the day.
I raised a fledgling screech owl to adult hood and let it go. It lived in the garage rafters. It finally left but would return for a few days from time to time.
I fed it hamburger when it was young. After it aged, it would not come down to get fed..
That’s why enjoy coming to Free Republic: where we can all come together to puzzle over chestnuts like these.
So a cat-snatching coyote probably would not leave a cat’s carcass in plain sight. An owl or sadistic person probably would.
For the owl and sadist theories, we’d need to learn more about the state of the corpses that the cats were found. Paws snipped off and ribcage torn open with entrails eaten (as Deaf Smith noted), points to an owl.
But the story doesn’t say anything about their condition other than “mutilated” and “displayed in front yards and parks.” And neither does the story say what is meant by those words. There are no descriptions detailing that.
An example of this (direction) is the movie "The Drop" with Tom Hardy. A bad guy beats a pup and in the end, Tom Hardy murders the bad guy. Hardy's character clearly chastises the bad guy for, among other things, beating defenseless animals. The event is a celebratory moment in the movie because the bad guy beat the dog in the first place.
The original book was called "Animal Rescue."
I would expect the police can tell the difference between types of attacks, whether human or animal, and they said it was caused by a human.
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