“Coyotes feast on outdoor cats around here.
It has to be a horrible death for the moggie.”
Not accurate, as the coyote simply kills teh cat.
Cats, on the other hand, like to tease and play with their prey before finally killing it. In terms of “horible death”, Kitty Dearest is instinctively an expert at delayed death.
My personal experience tells me otherwise.
Had two cats die to coyotes. One was a white/deaf girl; the other a mean feisty tom. When we found their carcasses the the stomachs has been ripped open and eaten. The rest was left as waste....their internal organs gone. Gruesome carnage that.
I admit, I didn’t do an up-close autopsy. My attention was to my crying kids and making graves in the woods.
We used to have this really ugly cat. We called her the Momma Cat because she kept having litters of surprisingly beautiful kittens. We never had any trouble giving the kittens away.
One day I checked in on her and her brood in the barn. She had a dead rat, two mice who had been injured just enough so they would try to get away from the kittens. She was clearly teaching them to hunt.
She also had a dead coral snake among her booty.