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>.<..I hope he'll be ok and comes back.

I came up with a really silly idea for the anime con I'm going to next month. It's gonna be a little parody of Deathnote. Instead, it'll be the No Brand Note (because it's No Brand Con), and if people write their names in it, they will have a great time at the con. If they write something more specific, then maybe it will happen. It's corny, but I wanted to do it because I'm going as L (and if you're familiar with Deathnote, I know this isn't totally right, but we'll just go with it). I bought a composition notebook, some black duct tape, and a white-out pen to make my No Brand Note. This should be interesting

ORINDA - When Tigger came home split open behind the eye last month, Bob Marshall chalked it up to a catfight or a car.

When the 12-year-old orange tabby "went AWOL" last week for the first time in three years before a search found him hours later, Marshall worried but had no answer.

And when a feral stray that had clung for years to Nanette Fukushima's porch vanished, she didn't know what to think.

But after Sunday night, the neighborhood in the low hills west of Camino Pablo is arching its back and abuzz with theories of serial cat abuse after the latest and most disturbing episode around their normally feline-friendly street.

That is when Zed, an orange tabby, turned up on a driveway with his paws bound in duct tape, blood across his face, a sheen of human urine coating his fur and a gouged and bloodied tail. To his owners -- a firefighter and a nurse -- it seemed as though his tail had been clamped in a vice.

"It made you pretty much just nauseous to look at it. It made you frightened, actually," said Lisa Bradley, Zed's owner. "I felt very violated. It wasn't like, 'Ha ha. Let's put tape on a cat and watch it walk.' It was encased, taped and woven like a cross-pattern."

Bradley held the remnants of the tape, which took her 20 minutes with a construction knife to remove, along with a coating of fur from her 8-year-old tabby. Each paw was taped, then the taped paws were strapped together. Now, Zed is on antibiotics and remains in the house. The last three inches of his damaged tail are bald. It may need to be amputated if it doesn't heal properly, Bradley said.

Her neighbor, Jeannie Woodlee, said she was leaving the house about 7:30 p.m. when she saw Zed in her driveway, silver tape wrapped up his front legs. His back paws were taped as well, but Zed had managed to free one leg and hobble. From where is a mystery.

"It was kind of a crawl-wiggle kind of move," said Woodlee. "I couldn't make sense of what I was looking at, at first. Then I realized a person had done this to be cruel to a cat. Everyone in our neighborhood is very disturbed by it."

That's putting it mildly, said Fukushima.

"We're freaked out," she said.

An Orinda police officer and a Contra Costa County animal services worker arrived, and the county agency took the case.

"Our investigation is open, but there's no active (case) -- no leads, no suspects, no information," said animal services Lt. Abe Gamez.

Animal cruelty can be punishable by as much as a year behind bars or a $20,000 fine. Such cases are rare, said Gamez.

Neighbors in the area say they hoped for more from police. Paul Rives, assistant to Orinda Police Chief Bill French, said police can do little without evidence of trespassing.

"The best-case scenario for us would be for the residents of the neighborhood to report any more of this activity and try to identify somebody who would be a suspect," he said.

Now, the people around California Avenue are left to scout for trouble and speculate.

One complicating factor: Zed and Tigger look nearly identical.

"This could either be some indiscriminate, serial, escalating act, it could be an undiscerning grudge act because the cats look exactly alike, or our cat in fact could have been hit by a car, and the (abuse) with their cat was an isolated act," said Marshall, 70.

"It may be someone not coping with growing up."

They should be looking at that alot more seriously. It's been known that serial killers start off with torturing animals.

They are bots. Everyone in the arena has been complaining about them because they usually just leave random comments in mass numbers all throughout the arena. They also seem to have a nasty habit of spam pming people from the arena. I would suggest reporting the pms and saying they appear to be spam/bot pms.


Rainy- I hope that isn't in your area, especially with you mentioning one of your kitties was absent. Did he come back yet by the way? (offers some hugs)

That...that is just sick. If someone did something to one of my babies, I'd return the favor, regardless of punishment to myself. God knows animal cruelty doesn't get taken seriously enough, but I suppose it's a step in the right direction that at least it's illegal now. Hope your kitty is okay.

-shudders.- Disgusting. PATHETIC. I want to MAIM him. ******** pathetic excuse for LIFE. If I had a cent to my name i'd be down there in a heart beat, Rainey. > neutral I'd find that sorry sack of s**t. -snarl.-