My brother had two outdoor cats. He lives in our house in Arkansas, which is right next to the national forest. It's very rural, but he's been having some troubles with one of the neighbors (who seems to have some drug problems since her daughter died in a car crash about a year ago).
Yin was an all-black male cat, and Yang was a white female. Yin was all male, a true tomcat, and only a step above feral, but my brother fed him every day he appeared. He liked to be petted, but couldn't be picked up. He frequently was gone for several days, but always showed back up again.
Yang was even wilder, but a strange cat. She had appeared as a kitten, grown up, and once had a run-in with something that apparently broke her neck. She huddled under the house for most of a week, then started eating and walking again, but always with a funny angle to her neck and head.
A couple months ago, first Yang disappeared, and then Yin. My brother assumed they had met something too big for them; coyotes, bobcats, and even bears are not uncommon there.
Today, he was discussing with the sheriff's deputy the problems he's been having with this neighbor, and mentioned that he was worried her sons might be in the habit of torturing animals. The deputy gave him information that leads him to believe the boys killed Yin, and probably Yang.
This is very upsetting; but we're talking about Arkansas, where animal control laws are still stuck in the 1920's.
RIP, poor wild kitties. You lived free, as you wanted to, but it exposed you to the worst of the human animal.
Yin was an all-black male cat, and Yang was a white female. Yin was all male, a true tomcat, and only a step above feral, but my brother fed him every day he appeared. He liked to be petted, but couldn't be picked up. He frequently was gone for several days, but always showed back up again.
Yang was even wilder, but a strange cat. She had appeared as a kitten, grown up, and once had a run-in with something that apparently broke her neck. She huddled under the house for most of a week, then started eating and walking again, but always with a funny angle to her neck and head.
A couple months ago, first Yang disappeared, and then Yin. My brother assumed they had met something too big for them; coyotes, bobcats, and even bears are not uncommon there.
Today, he was discussing with the sheriff's deputy the problems he's been having with this neighbor, and mentioned that he was worried her sons might be in the habit of torturing animals. The deputy gave him information that leads him to believe the boys killed Yin, and probably Yang.
This is very upsetting; but we're talking about Arkansas, where animal control laws are still stuck in the 1920's.
RIP, poor wild kitties. You lived free, as you wanted to, but it exposed you to the worst of the human animal.
