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Date Posted: 14:40:14 11/08/02 Fri
Author: Maggie
Subject: Re: Warning for Pet Owners
In reply to: Nevada 's message, "Warning for Pet Owners" on 12:58:18 11/08/02 Fri

Your suspicions of it being a human type attack are fairly accurate. It it had been coyote or mountain lion there would not be much left with the exception of some fur. If even that. My heart goes out to the family of this kitty. I have been alerted to some teenagers wondering around at late night hours dressed all in black thanks to the barking of my dog. However even during the day people have reported pets are taken from their front yards in other rural Riverside County areas. It might be a good idea to keep your pets in the house just to be safe and hope this type of incident doesnt happen again.

>Yesterday afternoon (11/7) my husband and I were
>walking with our children around the pond behind the
>barn. As we passed the orange grove area, we saw a
>dead animal. It was in a dirt area just before the
>big dirt field behind the baseball field, and nearly
>adjacent to the playground on the other side of the
>sidewalk. Upon closer inspection, my husband declared
>it was HALF a dead cat.
>
>Keeping the children away from it, I took a closer
>look myself. It looked like a relatively fresh kill.
>The head and two front legs were intact, but the back
>half was completely missing. It looked like it had
>been severed almost exactly down the middle of it, and
>the cut looked clean. A quick glance at the inner
>cavity proved that most of the organs were intact.
>
>If a coyote or mountain lion had killed it, it seems
>like the organs would be missing or mangled and the
>kill would have been much messier. My worst fear is
>that a person (or more than one) did this. I called
>the barn and told Michelle right away, mainly because
>I didn't want any children traumatized over such a
>grizzly sight.
>
>Pet owners beware!

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