Feline jihad
Stray cats are something that should not be encouraged to hang around. But one man’s article has drawn an investigation:
Police in Red Bank are investigating after a man wrote about launching a “feline jihad” to rid his Chattanooga suburb of stray cats. Max Gerskin wrote a two-part series in the Chattanooga Pulse weekly publication.
In his commentary, Gerskin said the strays fed by someone in the neighborhood have brought filth and disease to his home, and local Humane Society officials haven’t been able to stop it.
As a result, he wrote, in these words, “I’ve officially become a trapper and it’s time to take a walk to the river.”
September 13th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
While at Texas A&M I lived off-campus (two blocks out the back door of the Dixie Chicken, for those Aggies reading this). A few years before I arrived, an elderly lady took to feeding the stray cats. Within a month or so, there were dozens of them in the neighborhood. The LOL refused to stop the feeding, despite neighborhood complaints. A Vietnam vet who had returned to get a grad degree took it upon himself to remove the pests (firearm shooting and pest control in the county both being legal at the time). He popped about two dozen one morning with a 223. When police arrived to investigate the LOL complaints that “her” cats had been shot, they interviewed neighbors. They uniformly said that they would gladly buy him more ammo to complete the project. End of investigation, except the police told the lady to stop feeding the feral cats, or she would be cited for lack of rabies shots on “her” cats.