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Winnipeg animal advocates are hoping for answers as police investigate reports of cats being found dead in the Point Douglas area.

Winnipeg police said its major crimes unit is investigating those reports during a news conference last week where police announced charges against two people in connection with a case involving the slayings of cats. A police spokesman said the crimes are unrelated.

"It's gruesome and it's heartbreaking," said Point Douglas resident Kendra Halabicki, who runs a cat rescue out of her home in the area. "One of the cats that was first found, I actually had her in my home … so to find her horribly hurt and killed was heartbreaking."

Halabicki said a handful of cats have been found dead in the area with parts of their body missing, dating back to the summer.

Halabicki said she found four of them herself, one of which "had its jaw ripped off."

She said the deaths have left others in the area shaken.

"A lot of people in Point Douglas allow their cats to be outside," Halabicki said. "Most of them are outside during the daytime when the people are working from home and then at night time they're brought inside for safety.

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