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TO SOME OWNERS AND ANIMAL CONTROL. WE WANT TO WARN YOU, YOU MAY FIND THE DETAILS DISTURBING. >> HE WAS JUST PART OF OUR FAMILY. HE WAS LIKE A CHILD. >> NANCY OLSON IS TALKING ABOUT HER BELOVED FAMILY CAT BLUE. SHE SAYS HER SON AND GRANDSON WENT FOR A WALK AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HOUND 10. >> THEY CAME ACROSS OUR CAT THAT WAS CHOPPED IN HALF. >> MY SON, HE WAS DEVASTATED. HE HAS NOT DEALT WITH DEATH A LOT AT THIS AGE. >> WE COULD NOT COMPREHEND HOW SOMEONE COULD DO SOME THE LIKE THAT. THE LAST FEW MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE, WHAT HE WENT THROUGH. IT IS REALLY PAINFUL. >> SHE SAID SHE REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO ANIMAL CONTROL WHO SAID THEY HAD OTHER REPORTS IN THE AREA. BUT THE ANIMAL SHELTER IS NOT SO SURE A PERSON IS BEHIND THE KILLINGS, SAYING WE HAVE RECEIVED A FEW REPORTS IN WHICH THE CALL ASSUMES IT IS DONE BY HUMAN HANDS. COYOTES ARE VERY SOPHISTICATED. THEY MAY SLICE THEM IN HALF OR DECAPITATE THEM. >> I HAVE A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORS WHO ARE HUNTERS. THEY BOTH SAID, MACHETE. >> ANOTHER NEIGHBOR SAID SHE HAS SEEN SIMILAR KILLINGS AND IS WORRIED ABOUT IT BEING A PRECURSOR TO SOMETHING MORE SINISTER. >> THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AND CRUELTY TO HUMANS. >> MEANWHILE, NANCY AND HER FAMILY ARE SAD. WAKING UP EVERY MORNING IS TOUGH BECAUSE OF BLUE --

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A Sacramento family’s cat was found dismembered and neighbors say it’s happened several times in the past few months.The animal was found on the front lawn of Choices Charter School last Saturday.“He was just part of our family. He was like a child. He was like one of my children,” said the cat's owner Nancy Olson.Olson said her son and grandson went for a walk at the nearby school last Saturday morning and found their cat Blue dead."They came across our cat that was chopped in half,” Olson cried.“My son was really devastated,” said Olson’s son, Spencer Caudill. “He hasn’t really dealt with death a lot at this age.”“It’s hard to comprehend how somebody could do something like that but also the last few moments of his life and what he went through is really painful,” Olson said.She reported the incident to Animal Control personnel who told her they’ve had other reports in the area, as well. The Sacramento County Bradshaw Animal Shelter sent us this statement:“We have received a few reports of deceased cats in which the caller assumes it to be done by human hand. Coyotes are very sophisticated in how they kill their prey. They may slice them in half or decapitate them.”But Olson and her neighbors say coyotes are not responsible.“I have a couple neighbors that are hunters and we show them the pictures and they both said machete,” Olson said. Julie Swiecicki lives four houses away from Olson and said this has happened several times in the past few months.“ I was very disturbed because a month ago couple of blocks up came across The head of a cat and probably about two months before that I came across a half of a cat that looked like it had just been cut in half,” said Swiecicki.Olson said she spoke with someone from Animal Control about the animals she saw and was told that based on the way the bodies appeared, a coyote was not responsible.She’s a counselor and is concerned that this type of behavior could be a precursor to something much more sinister.If you have any information, call the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.