3 Sick Cats Euthanized After 10 Others Found Dead

November 22, 2011 10:54 AM

(Source: CBS4) One of three cats that had to be euthanized a day after 10 others were found dead from an apparent poisoning in the Hammocks.

WEST KENDALL (CBSMiami) – Three cats, suffering from an apparent poisoning incident, were euthanized Tuesday due to their poor condition. The cats were picked up Monday in a neighborhood in the Hammocks after a neighbor called to report nearly a dozen stray cats were dead or dying on her street.

Miami-Dade Animal Control said it appeared someone poisoned them.

Animal Control officer Michael Garateix took away a total of 10 dead cats. A few cats, which appeared to be healthy, remain on the street and Animal Control officers are setting up traps Tuesday to try and catch them.

All of the cats were strays, but Concetta Ciaccio and her daughters knew them by name. For years, they came to Ciaccio’s house on 147^th Place for food. Ciaccio said she started feeding the cats after people moved away and abandoned them following Hurricane Andrew.

She noticed on Sunday that something was wrong. Ciaccio said there were dead cats in her yard and on the street others were dying.

“It’s terrible,” said Ciaccio, “I’m not going have such a nice Thanksgiving now because somebody did something like this.”

Her daughter, Denise Betancourt, wiped away tears as she watched the cats struggling to stay alive.

“I can’t believe it. It’s awful. It’s awful to see them convulse like this. The situation is terrible I can’t believe that someone doesn’t have a heart,” Betancourt said.

Ciaccio moved the cat’s bodies out of the street and put them in her garage to keep them from being run over. She thinks someone purposely poisoned them.

“It’s terrible it’s like a massacre to me and that someone could do something like that it’s awful,” she told CBS4’s Maggie Newland.

“Most definitely sounds like a poisoning case,” said animal control officer Michael Garateix. “But those cases can be difficult to solve. It might be something that a neighbor might know who it is but they might not want to get involved might not want to rat on a neighbor,” said Garateix.

Animal Control will perform a necropsy on one of the cats to determine what killed them.

3 Sick Cats Euthanized After 10 Others Found Dead

Chucky

Well, that is too bad for the cats.

But here’s an idiot who thinks it’s a real sweet thing she’s doing by feeding those cats. Of course, she really doesn’t want to take care of them.

The result of that austere mentality is that you then have cats roaming the area, crawling over and scratching people’s cars and such, and defecating all over their yards,

Yeah, that’s a real good American and responsible neighbor; a real cat lover and supporter of animals…not!

Heather Long

Don’t be so quick to judge. I happen to know people in that neighborhood and not all the cats were strays, some were the neighbor’s pets that they would let roam. And that lady wasn’t the only owner feeding them. Besides, no matter
if you are an animal lover or not. It is wrong to be cruel to domesticated animals. And if someone could do this to an animal, they can do this to a child.
Which means no one is safe. Now would you like to live an environment like that?.

RANDRAND

SHALL WE BLAME THE DENTIST’S SON IN PALMETTO BAY AGAIN? MAYBE IT IS A DEVIANT COP-WHO WILL GRADUATE TO SEXUALLY MOLESTING YOUNG PORCUPINES IN THE AREA! MY GUESS IS SPACE ALIENS WHO HATE DATS—-WE WILL DISTRIBUTE THE HAND-PHASERS AND LIE IN WAIT-AND FESTOON THE DEVIANT CREATURES!!!!!