6 severed cat heads found in Stouffville

[JLM]

Police say someone intentionally killed and decapitated six cats before placing their heads where people could see them in the quiet town of Stouffville, north of Toronto.



The six disembodied cat heads have been found since mid-August but there were “no signs of torsos, no signs of blood,” York Regional Police Const. Andy Pattenden told a news conference in Stouffville on Thursday morning.



“We don’t know what the motive is behind it,” he said, but added that “it would appear as if there’s some sort of intent there.”

Pattenden stressed that the decapitations of the cats, whose heads were found between Aug. 12 and Sept. 13, do not appear to be the result of accidents or animal predators.



All of the heads appear to have been “placed, and not dropped accidentally or pushed around by something like a motor vehicle,” he said.


When asked whether the animal cruelty is a concern, given the association such acts have with later violence against people, Pattenden said everything is a concern at this point.


6 severed cat heads found in Stouffville | Toronto Star


jaaaaaaaaaaazuz 8O

There's definitely at least one sick bastard out there, just a matter of time now before it progresses to other species.

 

[petros]

A similar thing happened in Maple Ridge BC not too long ago. Everyone was surprise at who did it.

The story was very similar with it looking intentional.

Cats in Maple Ridge and Langley 'not killed by human' - Maple Ridge News

In Maple Ridge, a cat's head was left outside a school, placed on a porch and in a plastic bag. A tail was found under a missing cat poster, while another was tacked to a fence.



The deaths prompted the SPCA to issue a warning in March urging pet owners to keep their cats inside and suggesting a human might be responsible for the mutilations.



When asked why they if they overreacted and caused such alarm, the SPCA stressed it had to err on the side of caution.



Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the SPCA, said investigators could not initially rule out the possibility of human involvement because veterinary and pathology reports from 2011 and 2012 indicated that the animals had been severed using a sharp instrument.



"We have a responsibility in any of these types of cases where there is a suspicion of humans causing violence to animals," she said.


"I much rather be speaking to the news about how this was a predator rather than a year from now stating that we chalked this of to a predator, but now we've found out the person responsible has moved onto humans."