You heard one cry while a cat was killing it? Didn't you try and stop the cat from killing it?
By the time I found out what was making the noise it was headless and the cat was strutting around like Rocky after he beat a tough opponent. It was small too it must have been cute. Cat people seem to love to let their cats go out to kill things instead of keeping them in the house like they should.
I have woods behind my house there are always animals making noise. The raccoons and skunks growl ferociously and I'd like to kill the screaming foxes. I grew up in NY I had no idea WHF the fox screaming was for quite a while. Late at night they sound like they are been killed. The song what does the fox day is totally wrong they are annoying SOBs.
Last night I was walking the dog in the yard and something was in a tree growling at me. I got a flashlight to see what it was after putting the dog back. The tree was not that thick but somehow a fat tubb of lard Racoon had climbed it without the tree brekaing and wanted me to go away so it could go back to eating whatever my wife dumped in the woods for the animals.
Some fights a night are very fercious but I don't know what animals are fighting because the brush is dense. We even have had a couple of bears in my town over the years though luckily not in this batch of woods. This summer there has been some clicking animal making sounds all night. I have not been able to figure out what it is. If you go check on every noise you will be very busy.