Hmmm. Never liked cats much anyway did you?
Amongst the debris in the Bloodcat lair you find some dead fish, several useful items but no clues from Pepi Cortez. How can this be? Could the Bloodcats have eaten him? It seems unlikley as all the human bones seem not quite recent enough.
It is up to you what to do now: head east to the roadside store, or head back south and then east to the cattle farm.