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By Steve Huff in bizarre
Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 12:05PM


From treksterj on YouTube.

Sugar was 13 years old. The tailless white kitty still got around just fine. Since Sugar tended to announce his restlessness in the early morning hours by pacing back and forth on the piano, his owner, Mark McCanon, usually let Sugar out sometime around 3 a.m.

On Monday, Sugar didn't come back from his pre-dawn travels. Mark McCanon found his elderly cat dead in his backyard. Sugar had been slashed and gutted. The cat's tail and and legs were removed.

Sugar wasn't the first cat in this Lawrence, KS suburb to suffer such a gruesome fate. Another cat's severed head was found in a local park. Overall, as many as 3 cats have been mutilated, much like Sugar.

It has happened in Lawrence before. In September, 2005, an article was published by the Lawrence Journal-World & News about John and Rosie Elmore, and how they found their dog dead in the backyard of their home in southwest Lawrence on August 6 that year. Their pet had been mutilated as well.

As many as 3 other dogs as well as cats were killed that year. People were making it a point to bring their cats inside at night.

People wondered if the domestic animals had fallen prey to coyotes, or wildcats.

It might be a good idea to, wherever possible, review those cases in Lawrence. If the animals in Lawrence have fallen victim to the world's foremost apex predator, man, then it might just be a matter of time before the killer decides to try its hand at larger game.

[LJWorld.com and KTKA.com.]