And speaking of cats, I offer this from my brother. Papa, who died a year
ago, was a birder, not a catter, and encouraged us to deal with the
over-abundance of feral cats, dumped by the dozens by city folks, in a very
straightforward way.

Jack Kintner kintner at nas.com Blaine, WA


>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:35:38 -0700
>To: "Tom, Jack & Susy": ;
>From: Kelsey Redlin/Bill Kintner <kandb at mail.tenforward.com>
>Subject: cat training
>
>Sibs:
>
>Dad must be smiling: we've had increasing problems with neighborhood cats
>hanging around our bird feeders, so I bought a slingshot at Swains. Just
>fired off my first shot and not only hit the little bastard squarely in the
>butt, I even retrieved the steel shot to use again!
>
>Bill