Comments on: APB: There is a Cat Murderer Out There

By: Mitch Miller

Mitch Miller — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:00:16 +0000

What’s with this razor-sharp teeth imagery … it’s bogus .. they got razor-dull teeth. Nothing sharp in the razor sense about them. They might be pointed and pack a bunch of jaw power but they ain’t razor-sharp. Can’t shave with an old coyote tooth. Coyote would hungrily slurp up all the various internal goodies. Basically make short work of the entire puddycat …assuming they can catch the ever elusive nearest tree climbing puddy cat. I say two thumbs down to the coyote hypothesis. I like equally as unlikely but at least creative; giant eagle or owl explanation. Still doesn’t fit the forensics. BIG mystery.

By: Wily

Wily — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:47:00 +0000

There’s lots of coytoes around White Rock. We see them at dusk all the time up Williamson and Lawther. For reals.

By: billh

billh — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:54:10 +0000

I’ve seen coyotes in old lake Highlands, once along Creekmere, right about Lochwood, and once on Easton at Lake Highlands. Actually, I saw two there.

I’m told they are seen pretty often in that area.

I prefer the chupcabra theory though.

By: publicnewssense

publicnewssense — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:55:04 +0000

Chupacabra.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:40:29 +0000

The article says that it was a straight cut but the way the entrails are missing it has the hallmark signs of a coyote. I know one of the longtime landscape foremen in The Village and they have coyotes, foxes, beavers, bobcats, nutria that wander up the little creek(that winds in front of Super Target and Timbercreek Apts) that feeds into White Rock Creek. The Village is kind of caddy corner to where those cats were killed I guess.

This spring I was jogging behind the dam at White Rock Lake around dusk and an ambulance with its lights and sirens on drove up Winstead. From the depth of the fish hatchery came a response of a whole series of howls and loooong barks which sounded just like coyotes. Only place I have 100% ID’ed a coyote was at Greenville and Royal Lane. There are 5-6 coyotes that live in the woods there.

By: Dwight Schrute

Dwight Schrute — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:07:50 +0000

And this is why we need looser gun laws in Dallas. Coyotes are a pest, a varmint, but just try to shoot one in the city and see what a hassle it gets you. Not like out in the country.

Nature is cruel and a kitty is an easy meal for a coyote. That’s just another good reason to shoot coyotes. Also, you can wear their fur.

By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:44:24 +0000

Jack and Lisa- So true…it makes me sick to drive by yet another dead cat, every day, in Dallas. It makes me even more sad to see, like I did last week, a kid, maybe only 10 tearfully posting a “lost cat” sign on my street. We back up to a creek and have almost daily visits from coyotes, who also just had a huge litter of pups somewhere down stream. It seems so cruel to the cats to have them fend for themselves like that.

By: RP

RP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:44:16 +0000

The SPCA is offering a $ 5,000 reward. Maybe that will help.

By: News Junkie

News Junkie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:39:05 +0000

It’s a coyote. Coyotes are nocturnal predators and 75 percent of an urban coyote’s diet is cat. People often mistake the incisions made by their razor sharp teeth as evidence of a knife. Coyotes, like a lot of wildlife, live among us as their natural habitat shrinks and they are not going away. Next thing we’ll hear is that it’s the work of a bunch of Satan lovin’ teens.

By: Don't try this at home

Don't try this at home — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:20:41 +0000

A small yellow bird told me DPD detectives are looking for clues in this video tape found near the scene of the crime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_soUJ9In0