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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 14, 1993                   TAG: 9303150555
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: D-2   EDITION: METRO 
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CATS ARE A PUBLIC NUISANCE

IN RESPONSE to Joyce Ratcliffe's Feb. 23 letter, "Cats are doing a public service":

What a joke! Since when has killing pretty birds, cute rabbits and squirrels, etc., become a public service? Cats should be leashed when they're outside. They are a public nuisance with their digging in flower gardens, lounging on cars and lurking beneath bird feeders. Or perhaps there's a public service being done when they dash across the street to become road kill for squirrels, rabbits, birds, etc. JUDY S. PRETTYMAN ROANOKE

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