Max’s heartbroken owners say that their beloved tabby was “murdered” in what they are calling ‘targeted attack’, although no clear motive for the alleged killing has been given
A couple were left horrified after the severed tail of their pet cat was posted through their letterbox, leading them to believe the animal had been “murdered”.
Louise, 45, and Lisa, 47, were horrified after the chopped off appendage was discovered jammed through the mailbox at their Hull apartment days after the adorable tabby Max went missing last Monday. Police are believed to be investigating the creepy discovery, according to the Manchester Evening News.
The pair, who have asked for their surnames to be withheld, say they think Max may have been killed in what was a “targeted attack” against the pair.
Louise said: “We are devastated and heartbroken – who could do such a thing to an animal. He was murdered for no reason at all.
“It’s not normal for him to go missing, so we knew something was wrong,” she added. “He’d only go as far as the front or back garden, he was really happy at home.
“I went out at 12pm last Monday and I put him in the front garden, telling him I’d be back later. But when I got home, he was nowhere to be seen.”
Louise continued: “Normally, he’d come running up to my car, but there was no sign of him.”
Louise then detailed the horrifying moment that Lisa made the discovery.
She said: “I just heard Lisa screaming and crying. That is something I will never forget. She was calling for me to ring the police. I started crying and screaming. I just broke down.
“I thought Lisa must have found him collapsed on the floor – but when I got there I realised it was not his whole body, it was just his tail. It’s definitely his. He’s a tabby cat with a white tip on the tail. It looks like a paintbrush.”
Humberside Police are reportedly investigating the incident, while expert vets in Liverpool are analysing the tail in hopes of discovering somebody who might have touched it.
Louise said: “I’ve got horrible images in my head that the tail was taken off while he was alive. I go through phases of not feeling anything, like a zombie, and then all of a sudden I get waves of emotion,” she added. “It’s awful not knowing where the rest of his body is.”
To make matters worse, Louise and Lisa were in the process of organising their wedding, but have cancelled their afterparty due to the grief and fear felt by the horrifying discovery.
Louise said: “It has put a massive shadow over it. We’ve told all of our guests that we aren’t doing anything afterwards now, we’re just going to the registry office and then for one drink.
“We were originally going to go to a pub in Hull to have a buffet,” she added. “We still want to get married, we just can’t bear the thought of celebrating.”