Deborah Lebeda of Cedar Rapids lost her outdoor cat, B.W. Meowski, back in March and he is never coming home again.

"I felt terrible since I found this out," said Lebeda.

Lebeda says she did her best to ensure the feline would one day return to her porch, telling I9 she filed a missing cat report with Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control on March 30th. Phone records show she made the call and that the agency even called her back.

"The person that I spoke to told me that I should also put this on facebook, there's a site on facebook, Cedar Rapids area lots pets, and so I did that also," said Lebeda.

Lebeda claims she went weeks without hearing a word. So on April 20th she called animal control again to follow up on the situation. What she learned, Meowski was euthanized a week prior.

"I think they're covering something up," said Lebeda. "They didn't hold the cat for a period of days, they didn't check the records, so this is how they're dealing with it."

Dianne Webber is the program manager for Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control. Weber tells I9 someone had trapped Meowski as a feral cat. Weber described the cat as "unmanagebale", which is why they chose to put the animal down after only a 48 hour hold. Weber declined to answer specific questions about the case as the agency is still investigating what happened.

"You (KCRG) brought it up and she opened it up by going to you so this is now an open investigation," said Weber.

Weber acknowledges Lebeda filed a missing cat report but claims it was for a different cat, one that looks nothing like Meowski and one Lebeda says has never wandered away.

To clear things up I9 asked city officials to give us any documentation that they had on Lebeda's cat but it turns out that nothing exists.

"I'd say sometimes we'll have as many as 50 or 60 on file," said Weber.

Webber says typically lost animal reports are only held for a couple months, tops. In her view, they simply don't "have a file drawer large enough to hold all the Lost/Found reports…"

I9 asked Weber if room is the issue why they don't move their reports to a computer system. In response Weber said, "It's not that we don't have room its just that to go through them all the time even if we were to try to do it online would be almost impossible to try and match everything up."

Lebeda says in the wake of loosing her cat she has had her other cat micro chipped.