Cat owners, be alert.

[Mands]

The only way this killer is gonna get caught is if everyone has cctv in their front and back gardens to catch him. I keep my cats in at night. He needs to be caught soon.

[Howl_78]

This is getting f@cking stupid now.

Seriously out of hand.

Just seen that there was an article in the Sun and on the BBC news website today. It needs more mainstream national exposure like this.

At the bottom of the BBC article are related news links. There was one from October 2014. It's been going on for at least two years..!

How is it still happening?

How has fate/karma not caught up with the evil perpetrator?

[Saffron]

From the SNARL page:

Further Bracknell update:

Sly, the cat whose body Tony has just collected was last seen at 7am this morning and his body found a couple of hours after this.

Therefore this was an attack during the daytime.

We reiterate our advice to please keep your cats indoors unless you are physically with them. We would also ask that you share our pinned post everywhere you can so that people know what to do.

We would ask that the community please give us and the police space and time to investigate this and the press give the families time to come to terms with the loss of their beloved cat and the shock of seeing his body.

Our thoughts are with Sly's family at this hideous time.

[singalto]

It turns out Sly is fine and the dead cat is as yet unidentified. SNRL have concluded that the cat was probably killed at night after all.

[Saffron]

Thanks for the update. Glad Sly is fine. I hope the owners of the other cat will be found soon. So sorry for their loss.

We have always kept our cats in at night and will continue to do so. xx

[singalto]

Please keep your cats in at night as the cat killer is still very active.

[tarafitness]

sensitively written piece by the BBC. Horrifying to know that this cruel killer is still at large :'-(

[edhistory]

The BBC does not write articles.

The article does not say "this cruel killer is still at large".

What is known about Chris Baraniuk?

[tarafitness]

"The killer is still out there. Snarl, the RSPCA and the police continue to receive regular reports of mutilations."

Are you going to quibble over semantics? Not sure what the purpose of your contribution is?

[singalto]

As tarafitness says, the cat killer is still very active and the article is on the BBC website.

[edhistory]

Interested in evidence, if any.

Do you have any?

[redjam]

What unnecessarily aggressive posts, edhistory. Tarafitness was just sharing an article from a reputable source that might be of interest to those following this case. I can't see what the problem is. Are you implying the whole thing is made up?

[Mystic Mog]

edhistory Wrote:

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> Interested in evidence, if any.

>

> Do you have any?

Loads of evidence out there, do your research.

[Zebedee Tring]

This issue has been in the news for over a year-:there has been at least one feature about it on the TV and countless newspaper articles. As a result we and numerous other cat owners have been keeping our pets in at night ever since. Is it really being suggested that this is an urban myth and that we are all deluded?

[edhistory]

You mean the published material which has been written by "journalists" topping and tailing SNARL press releases?

Show me some evidence.

[redjam]

Er, are you asking to see some photos? Perhaps you could try contacting Detective Sergeant Andy Collins and his team of 16 investigating officers?

[Zebedee Tring]

Perhaps, edhistory, you think that it's a hoax story - a bit like "Elvis Presley seen in M&S in Lordship Lane".

Or isn't it really the case that you are a WUM?

[Sue]

redjam Wrote:

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> Er, are you asking to see some photos? Perhaps you

> could try contacting Detective Sergeant Andy

> Collins and his team of 16 investigating officers?

Sixteen ?????!!!!!!

[redjam]

I know, seems a lot, but that's what it says in the article.

Unless you believe the whole article is an elaborate hoax, of course!

[rendelharris]

"Collin leads a team of 16 officers. They are running a number of investigations..." So it's a team of detectives, one of whose cases is the cat killer, not seventeen officers on the one case.

[Otta]

Thank God for that. If 16 officers were on this case it would be an appalling waste of resources.

[jaywalker]

No it wouldn't be.

The serial cat killer needs to be found and fast. How, Otta, are you measuring the distress to owners over this? I would prefer someone broke into my home to take my mobile, took drugs, shoplifted (all crimes I have witnessed or in the first case experienced directly) etc etc WAY more than they killed my cat. The cat, probably, would think itself the target of natural predation and give a resigned shrug. It is my feelings that count (and my taxes).

[Mystic Mog]

Well said Jaywalker.

[Zebedee Tring]

I also agree with Jaywalker. As do my cats.

[Otta]

Your taxes?

I very much doubt they'd pay for one police officer unless you're very well off.

I am not belittling the crime, it is nasty and sick, and I hope the person is found and punished. But just because you and a few (or even a lot) other cat owners think it should be top priority, doesn't mean that it should be, or that other people with other concerns would think that it should be.

The only way that level of resources could be justified is if they were convinced the perpetrator was getting ready to move on to human targets. And even then I doubt they'd have 16 officers investigating it.