We recently wrote about a wave of
cat
mutilations in Salt Lake City. Now Jason Felch writes in The
Denver Post that mutilated cats are being found almost every
day in Denver. Some of them have even been mutilated
before they've been killed. Police see a link between the
Denver and Salt Lake City mutilations.
"The Utah and Colorado cases are on almost exactly the
same time schedule," says Temma Martin, of the Salt Lake
County Animal Services. "Somehow they seem to be linked.
The timing is similar; the injuries are similar."
The cats are abducted after their owners put them out for
the night. They're returned to their homes in a mutilated
state in the morning. "It's a serial killing," says Carol DeYoung,
whose cat was beheaded. "These killers, these sadists, turn
into adults who are serial killers. It needs to be addressed
more thoroughly than they've done it."
Sometimes the mutilated bodies are placed in "poses" on the
lawn or by the front door. "That's as disturbing as the
mutilation," says Christy Hughes, owner of a mutilated cat. "I
think evil is word for it. Not sick. Evil."
When it comes to
animal mutilations, our science reporter Linda Moulton Howe
is still the expert.
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