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| 'Big Cat' Causing Stir In Detroit Is Shot Dead | |
| 2013-08-28 | |
| [DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] An exotic-looking "big cat" is no longer roaming a northwest bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... neighborhood. Several residents called animal control officers after seeing the feline -- by some reports described as nearly four feet tall -- roaming the streets. "It got out of its owner's home about a month ago through a screened-in window. So, we have been out there day and night, trying to set traps out to get this cat," Laura Wilhelm-Bruzek, with Paws for the Cause Feral Cat Rescue, told WWJ Newsradio 950. Wilhelm-Bruzek said she spoke to news hounds on Saturday who said the cat was killed. "They gave me a picture of a cat that was deceased, that was shot by a neighbor. So, we already had a good suspicion that the cat was deceased," she said. Wilhelm-Bruzek said after word spread about the big cat sightings, she was contacted by people who claimed to be the animal's owner. "Yesterday, we finally were contacted by the people that thought this might be their cat. They had heard that I had pictures of the dear departed cat and wanted to know if it was their cat," she said. Wilhelm-Bruzek met up with the couple, traded pictures and determined they were in fact the cat's owners. "They were just hysterical, I mean, they're heartbroken. They had to watch this unfold over the news and all the lies with people saying this cat is dangerous, you know, when those of us that know the breed know that it was not. I mean, the neighbors have pictures of them petting the cat," she said. Wilhelm-Bruzek said the feline is a Savannah, which is a hybrid domestic cat breed. "It was simply ignorance. A Savannah cat is a cross between an African Serval and a domestic cat, and that is it. They're larger cats, they're very beautiful, they have a lot of stripes and spots, which I think was more intimidating to people than even the size of the cat, because the cat wasn't overly huge, about 25 pounds and maybe when it was sitting was probably two feet tall. But they're very sweet animals, they're kind of like the dog of the cat world" she said.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Gott'm a Maine Coon Cat ourselves. Glad we don't live in Detroit (reason #10 billion and one). |
| Posted by: Dopey Sinatra 2013-08-28 18:12 |
| #4 “It was simply ignorance. A Savannah cat is a cross between an African Serval and a domestic cat, and that is it. They’re larger cats, they’re very beautiful, they have a lot of stripes and spots, which I think was more intimidating to people than even the size of the cat, because the cat wasn’t overly huge, about 25 pounds and maybe when it was sitting was probably two feet tall. But they’re very sweet animals, they’re kind of like the dog of the cat world” she said. Please don't forget a Maine Coon Cat, also thought to be a cross between, an exotic breed and an European cat. Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. - Thomas Paine |
| Posted by: Au Auric 2013-08-28 10:03 |
| #3 Ah yes, the pillaging, looting, mismanagement and destruction of a long-time Democratically controlled city. There is not much left except the bones. That's what happens when a large city gets serially raped over a long period of time. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-08-28 09:42 |
| #2 Great metaphor for a once-great city. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2013-08-28 07:22 |
| #1 Damn, One beautiful cat. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-28 06:32 |