Brooklyn coward kills 18 cats, 3 racoons with enough poison to take out an elephant
A sadistic creep wiped out an entire Brooklyn cat colony last week by pumping the felines full of enough rat poison to “take out an elephant,” their devastated caretaker said.At least 18 cats and three raccoons were callously killed in the mass murder, which has ignited outrage in the Bath Beach neighborhood.Albert Berto discovered the horrifying scene last Tuesday morning when he stepped outside to give the 24 cats their daily breakfast — but only one cat rushed to the sound of the shaking food can.That’s when he looked beneath his deck and found the bodies of Mr.Weatherby, Mr.
Yellow, the Tiger Twins and three more — all bleeding from the nose, mouth and rectum.He found more bodies in the following week until he recovered 18 cats and three raccoons.“I love those cats.I took them in.
I can’t even believe this is happening.The pain they must have suffered.
It’s unbelievable,” Berto told The Post.“I can’t sleep.I gotta take NyQuil every night to go to sleep.
I’m just constantly dreaming about seeing them pulling those cats out.”Berto, who had cared for the cats for eight years, instantly knew that the colony was the target of poisoning, possibly delivered through poisoned food.The ASPCA took the bodies of the first seven victims in for a necropsy, the results of which is still pending and could take weeks.Albert and local animal activists took another kitten from the colony, which they found later in the week, to a private vet, who delivered the news that the cat had high levels of rat poison in its system, likely delivered by its food, wildlife activist Reeva Grammatikopoulos, who responded to the murder, told The Post.“There was 800 milligrams of rat poison.The toxicology guy said it would kill an elephant.
That’s what was in these cats,” said Berto.Berto and other neighbors believe they know the sick individual responsible for the mass murder, saying the person made it clear they hated the felines and complained that the cats d...