Thank you all. I am not handling this well at all. I am just devastated. I've never lost a cat this way. I keep thinking how scared she must have been in her last moments. My sister from Lake Mary came up and we took Cassie to PAWS, our vet; they will send her for cremation.

About 1/2 an hour after finding her I was sitting in my front den looking out the window when I saw huge wings fly by. I didn't see the body as it was blocked by the Sylvester. Could it have been a hawk with wings that big? The vet tech told my sister that they have had several clients cats killed by hawks.