Animals: Cat Trapping

Some gatophobes commit felicide. They belong to the middle stratum of cat-haters. Others so morbidly hate & fear cats that they are too paralyzed by one's presence to be able to kill it. More normal and far more numerous are those gatophobes whose comparatively mild aversion to cats finds expression only in "s-s-scatting," throwing shoes, occasional kidnapping.

Residents of Manhattan's smart East End Avenue and Henderson Place did not know what they had to contend with when their cats began to disappear last fortnight. Even a socialite cat may stray, but when Writer...

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