"I was watching them attack the cat, one on each side, picking him up, throwing him up in the air. And eventually the cat expired," said Scott Krutsinger, a cat owner who thought he was witnessing the death of his cat at the hands of the two dogs.
DeLand Police animal control eventually captured these two dogs, a mother-son duo named Ravina and Rusty. They pair is responsible for killing seven cats and seven ducks.
Ravina and Rusty, now sit in a DeLand Kennel called Second Chance, and that’s what Officer Gary Thomas wants the dogs to have.
No one has ever claimed the dogs. Officer Thomas says he believes the dogs killed out of survival instinct.
"They were having to fend for themselves so they were having to kill ducks and cats to fend for themselves," said Officer Thomas.
But Kurtsinger, whose cat returned home unharmed several days after the mauling incident, disagrees.
"The way they were attacking the cat, it wasn't, you know, I needed to eat," Kurtsinger said. "It was just playing around."
Thomas says the city will not make Ravina and Rusty available for private adoption, but they are making them available to a dog rescue, which would find a home for them.
Thomas argues that you wouldn't put down a cat after it ate a mouse.
[Officer Gary Thomas is an idiot.]
(Central Florida News 13 - April 23, 2013)
