ST. PETERSBURG - A cat apparently was beaten to death Saturday in front of her home while her owner was in the backyard.
St. Petersburg police are investigating the incident as an animal cruelty case, and Paul Gilchrist, who owned the cat named Amy, has set up a Web site dubbed whokilledamy.com.
"What we're trying to do now is find out who's responsible," said Gilchrist, who is in the search engine optimization business.
Gilchrist, 46, said he was in front of his home at 2256 Burlington Ave. on Saturday morning with his cats, but when he called Amy, she didn't come. He said he was in the backyard for 15 minutes, returned to the front of his house and saw Amy lying on the sidewalk in distress.
Gilchrist took Amy to a veterinarian and later was told by a neighbor that animal services had shown up at his door because the agency had received a report that a cat was being beaten there, he said.
The man who reported the beating, Ronald Broadway, was taking a walk with his wife when he saw a man with a stick and two dogs beating the cat, said St. Petersburg Police Department spokesman Bill Proffitt. Broadway then called 911.
Matthew Klein, a veterinarian at Noah's Place Animal Hospital, said a necropsy confirmed Amy had been beaten.
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