[KillarneyRose]

I have an update on this situation, but it's pretty upsetting.

A landscaper who was doing work for a family that lives about a mile away from me and he went into the shed to get something and noticed a rotten smell. He found the decomposing body of a cat and called the police because he saw that a sort of noose had been fashioned around its neck.

When the county animal control officers arrived, they found what they believe is the corpse of the mama kitty whose kittens were tortured and killed last week (ETA: it was actually last month). Like I said, she was found with a rope around her neck and it appeared that she had been swung around into stationary objects. Her eyes had both been gouged out and twigs had been shoved into her vagina and anus.

I can't believe something like this happened in my neighborhood. Oh, and the 14 year old who's family owns the shed admitted that he and a group of his friends decided to do this "just for fun". His father, who is a very prominent attorney in Annapolis was heard to say that "They were only stray cats, who cares?" I was talking with one of my neighbors at the beach today and she made a comment comparing the mama cat with a Baltimore City welfare mom who spits out kids when she can't take care of them. It's hard to shock me, but I was rendered speechless!

What the hell is wrong with people???

(although, in fairness, the vast majority of neighbors are AT LEAST as upset with this as I am)