oh how terrible! I just saw this thread. it is so scary, what an awful feeling that had to be for you to come home to discover that. Im really sorry for your pets. how are they, the dogs, doing now? do you live alone? be careful. what a horrid thing for someone to do, it is awful enough to break in someones house, and mess it up, and then to steal or try to, but why hurt animals?
I don't know what I would do in your case, it is something that really scares me, not losing a vcr but having my cats scared or hurt.

do you have any idea now who might have done this?
sounds like maybe some dumb kids, because I would think that someone that really wanted to steal would have got the stuff and got out of there, not hang around hurting animals and trashing the place...