Winged Cat
A winged cat has
been killed by villagers near the Central Russian city of Kursk. The locals
drowned the deformed puss after believing it was a messenger of Satan, the
Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.
On entering her yard, Nadezhda Medvedeva saw how a stray cat stood up and, just
like a chicken, stretched out two wings. She said that at that moment her hair
stood on end. The locals had no doubt the unlucky cat was a messenger of the
devil.
Where the cat came from and why it appeared in the village of Bukreyevk nobody
knows. Nadezhda Medvedeva, whose home is located on the edge of the village,
said she initially heard a soft meowing.
“We poured some milk into a bowl,” Medvedeva recounted. “A tom cat came out —
ginger, huge, twice as big as normal. He drank greedily and started meowing
again…asking for more. We started feeding him. After a couple of days my
daughter came running in all scared and whispered: ’Mom, come and look at the
cat! He’s got wings!’”
Nadezhda Medvedeva went out and saw how the cat slowly moved its wings exactly
as a chicken would. The woman immediately came to the conclusion that the cat
was sinister, “just like a sort of devil”.
The daughter, having already named the cat Vaska, claimed he was affectionate
and had obviously been a pet.
The rumor of the winged cat soon reached Kursk, but by the time a correspondent
got wind of it the cat had already been killed by a local drunk, who drowned the
unique feline. A sack with the animal’s body was recovered later from a pond
near the Medvedev’s home. Despite the fact decomposition had already set in, the
correspondent from the local Komsomol newspaper confirmed the cat did actually
have wings.