Six years ago, on July 13th, my youngest daughter's birthday, she let her all white cat Rosie, out at 7:30 in the morning as usual. Rosie ran out and right in front of my daughter's eyes a coyote ran out of the bushes by the boatr and grabbed it. The cat never made a sound but my kid was screaming in horror. Kill 'em all. Last summer, while in my boat with Stifftip just outside of Stage Harbor we found one swimming from North Monomoy to Morris Island. I ran him over ( by accident of course).
Sorry to hear 'bout your kitty Steve. Been there. It $%#@*!!!