Thank you everyone that was helpful and thank you for your support. It is nice to hear from the people that have experienced the same thing or that can empathize because the too have pets they love. Perhaps someone?s pet will be saved by reading this thread.
Wow, some folks need to read closer instead of skip reading. Many questions were already answered but here are some more details but make sure you read my other posts before you make assumptions. As I mentioned I was not home when this went down. My information comes from the witnesses, police reports, seeing the wounds first hand, etc. We owned 9 cats; 5 live inside and four live outside as well as inside; we now own 8 cats. We have lived here for over 25 years and never had an incident like this. We had Ralph for 7 years before he was killed. I got home just before animal control showed up.
Ralph wasn't wandering that is an entirely different cat which was found safe. Ralph didn?t wander unless he was following me on a walk for tops 100 feet from the house then he would return home because he was afraid to leave home but meow at me in frustration to come back. Ralph was caught by the dog on my property or chased from my property and caught. The neighbor that witnessed the dog with Ralph in its mouth screaming saw the dog coming from the direction of my home and that neighbor lives about 150 feet down the street. My neighbor?s wife pretty much freaked out thinking it was her cat and couldn?t sleep for days because of what she saw. The husky was caught by animal control on the same neighbor?s lawn where it had settled to enjoy the kill. Again Ralph is not the wandering cat we own, Spice is. Spice is the only cat we own that has wander lust; the other cats stick to the house like glue.
In chronological order of injury with hindsight: The first cat injured Bigfoot wasn?t noticed to be injured till the following day because he was let inside before anything witnessed happened and we thought he was inside during this entire ordeal. The focus was on finding Teddy. The second cat injured Teddy was injured when the dog entered the garage through the dog door where my 70 year old father was working and ignoring him completely; the husky spotted Teddy and had him in his mouth by the leg all within a few seconds. My 70 year old father then yelled NO as loud as he could and the startled husky dropped Teddy. My 70 year old father then had to wrestle with this large husky and take his own belt off to use as a makeshift collar to be able to control the dog. Pulling the dog from the garage via the front door of the garage the dog squirmed loose and ran away. My father wasn?t even sure Teddy was even injured. When he yelled NO and the dog dropped Teddy, Teddy promptly hid and was not found until about 90 minutes later after lots of worried frustrated searching. It turned out that Teddy was injured.
When Teddy was found, he had defecated on himself; people and animals will do this in extreme fear and pain. Teddy was taken inside and bathed to clean him up and look for any injury. The injury to his leg was found at this time. Teddy is a very furry long haired Himalayan cat so the injury wasn?t found instantly because his fur just covers everything. The third cat Ralph was in the garage the last we saw him before the wound on Teddy was found. Sometime during Teddy?s bath or just after he was found or while Teddy was being searched for that Husky found Ralph and killed him. Within about 15 minutes of finding the wound on Teddy?s leg animal control was called but they said they already knew about it and were coming to our house. You, see the neighbor had already called animal control to report Ralph being killed. So, within a few minutes animal control came and looked at Teddy and asked if we were missing a cat and we said yes Ralph and Spice. Animal control said we have Ralph in the truck dead and gave us his collar.
Spice the wandering cat was found latter that night by me when she came to me to follow me around the block for a walk if she spots me which is about a 50% chance. So, I walked the neighborhood and she came out which was a tremendous relief to me.
I am sure this explanation won?t be enough to satisfy the blame the victim advocates and the ?it is just a cat? sentimentality folks. Until you own a pet that you loved and cared for, for many years, and it is killed unjustly you cannot truly empathize. The simple difference can be illustrated by the life experiences of two judges. If one judge experienced my experience he would throw the book at the defendant and if another has not then he will say ?it is just a cat.? Judgments? and justice come down to life experience, empathy, subjectivity; hence the lawyers everlasting search for biased judges. It is all relative to a persons life experiences.
One more comment to those that say ?it is just a cat? you can go get another one free. I have to say that is amazingly harsh and shows a real lack of compassion for any living thing. If you don?t own a pet you love then you simply cannot understand. If it ever happens to you someday you will get it but until then it?s hopeless. Based on some of the comments I expect if someone?s child was killed the response would be hey get over it just make another one or adopt one. You are suing for revenge, not justice.
I am trying to setup a temp webpage with pictures sized for proper viewing but have to wait for the domain name to be acquired so it will probably be late tonight or tomorrow before I have pictures up.
Wow, some folks need to read closer instead of skip reading. Many questions were already answered but here are some more details but make sure you read my other posts before you make assumptions. As I mentioned I was not home when this went down. My information comes from the witnesses, police reports, seeing the wounds first hand, etc. We owned 9 cats; 5 live inside and four live outside as well as inside; we now own 8 cats. We have lived here for over 25 years and never had an incident like this. We had Ralph for 7 years before he was killed. I got home just before animal control showed up.
Ralph wasn't wandering that is an entirely different cat which was found safe. Ralph didn?t wander unless he was following me on a walk for tops 100 feet from the house then he would return home because he was afraid to leave home but meow at me in frustration to come back. Ralph was caught by the dog on my property or chased from my property and caught. The neighbor that witnessed the dog with Ralph in its mouth screaming saw the dog coming from the direction of my home and that neighbor lives about 150 feet down the street. My neighbor?s wife pretty much freaked out thinking it was her cat and couldn?t sleep for days because of what she saw. The husky was caught by animal control on the same neighbor?s lawn where it had settled to enjoy the kill. Again Ralph is not the wandering cat we own, Spice is. Spice is the only cat we own that has wander lust; the other cats stick to the house like glue.
In chronological order of injury with hindsight: The first cat injured Bigfoot wasn?t noticed to be injured till the following day because he was let inside before anything witnessed happened and we thought he was inside during this entire ordeal. The focus was on finding Teddy. The second cat injured Teddy was injured when the dog entered the garage through the dog door where my 70 year old father was working and ignoring him completely; the husky spotted Teddy and had him in his mouth by the leg all within a few seconds. My 70 year old father then yelled NO as loud as he could and the startled husky dropped Teddy. My 70 year old father then had to wrestle with this large husky and take his own belt off to use as a makeshift collar to be able to control the dog. Pulling the dog from the garage via the front door of the garage the dog squirmed loose and ran away. My father wasn?t even sure Teddy was even injured. When he yelled NO and the dog dropped Teddy, Teddy promptly hid and was not found until about 90 minutes later after lots of worried frustrated searching. It turned out that Teddy was injured.
When Teddy was found, he had defecated on himself; people and animals will do this in extreme fear and pain. Teddy was taken inside and bathed to clean him up and look for any injury. The injury to his leg was found at this time. Teddy is a very furry long haired Himalayan cat so the injury wasn?t found instantly because his fur just covers everything. The third cat Ralph was in the garage the last we saw him before the wound on Teddy was found. Sometime during Teddy?s bath or just after he was found or while Teddy was being searched for that Husky found Ralph and killed him. Within about 15 minutes of finding the wound on Teddy?s leg animal control was called but they said they already knew about it and were coming to our house. You, see the neighbor had already called animal control to report Ralph being killed. So, within a few minutes animal control came and looked at Teddy and asked if we were missing a cat and we said yes Ralph and Spice. Animal control said we have Ralph in the truck dead and gave us his collar.
Spice the wandering cat was found latter that night by me when she came to me to follow me around the block for a walk if she spots me which is about a 50% chance. So, I walked the neighborhood and she came out which was a tremendous relief to me.
I am sure this explanation won?t be enough to satisfy the blame the victim advocates and the ?it is just a cat? sentimentality folks. Until you own a pet that you loved and cared for, for many years, and it is killed unjustly you cannot truly empathize. The simple difference can be illustrated by the life experiences of two judges. If one judge experienced my experience he would throw the book at the defendant and if another has not then he will say ?it is just a cat.? Judgments? and justice come down to life experience, empathy, subjectivity; hence the lawyers everlasting search for biased judges. It is all relative to a persons life experiences.
One more comment to those that say ?it is just a cat? you can go get another one free. I have to say that is amazingly harsh and shows a real lack of compassion for any living thing. If you don?t own a pet you love then you simply cannot understand. If it ever happens to you someday you will get it but until then it?s hopeless. Based on some of the comments I expect if someone?s child was killed the response would be hey get over it just make another one or adopt one. You are suing for revenge, not justice.
I am trying to setup a temp webpage with pictures sized for proper viewing but have to wait for the domain name to be acquired so it will probably be late tonight or tomorrow before I have pictures up.