The Manenberg serial cat killer or cat killers are still out there and it has now been confirmed that it is definitely a human act of terror.
The Animal Welfare Society of South Africa (AWS) recently received back the post mortem reports from veterinary pathologists which confirmed their worst nightmare – that the cats were butchered intentionally and that it is indeed an act of a human or humans and not related to an animal attack.
Dubbed the Manenberg Cat Killer, the person/s is responsible for horrific acts of violence against cats and kittens since July 2021. According to AWS, his signature move is to slice cats in two, disembowel them and throw them into resident’s yards.
So far, the killer/s has butchered 37 cats in the suburb in Cape Town.
According to the report, AWS said: “We can now confidently state that the vast majority of cats were maliciously and brutally killed by a person or group of individuals. According to the Post Mortem Reports:One of the cats died as a result of severe blunt force trauma to her left dorsal thorax leading to traumatic severing of the spine and multiple fractures to the ribs.
“The sharp fractured ribs caused lacerations inside the chest cavity leading to severe damage of the lungs. In lay terms she was viciously beaten to a pulp before being sliced open with a sharp blade and disembowelled.The other cat suffered equally gruesome fatal injuries and had post mortem alterations to his body.
“His right thoracic wall had been surgically removed and the nature of his injuries suggests that it was cut away with a sharp blade. In lay terms he had been primitively dissected and gutted.The report goes on to confirm that the cat’s hearts and lungs had been removed by severing the trachea and oesophagus at the thoracic inlet and cutting away part of the diaphragm,” AWS said in a Facebook post.
They said the evidence gathered rules out an animal attack, and there is clear evidence of “human intervention”.
“Neither of the cadavers had any signs of associated dog trauma but this may not be the case for all of the 37 cats killed to date by this murderous maniac.The traumatic manner in which these cats are being killed has significantly escalated to a degree like nothing ever seen before and we are now finding bodies chopped clean in half on the sidewalk,” they said.
AWS has increased the reward to R7000 for information. If you have any information, you can contact 021 692 2626 during office hours or 082 601 1761 after hours. Your anonymity is guaranteed.
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