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Mystery surrounds shaven cat incidents in Hawke’s Bay town

February 10, 2022

For a couple of months now. some of the feline residents and have been disappearing and some are returning home without fur. (Source: Seven Sharp)

A mysterious pattern of domestic cat disappearances is puzzling locals in the Hawke's Bay town of Havelock North.

And it's not just cats disappearing that's causing concern, some re-appear, with a razor-shaved fur-cut.

The ordered tapestry of the town's social fabric is slowly being frayed by the incidents - four such cases of cats losing their fur in Havelock North South recently and at least a dozen more mysterious disappearances.

Seven Sharp's Julian Lee did some investigating.

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