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Cat-cophony Western editors and readers alike complained in print about the way cats carried on, especially at night when the feline meowing, trilling, hissing, growling, snarling, screeching and wailing kept the good townsfolk awake. A May 1877 report out of Lawrence, Kan., told of a "champion cat-destroying angel" that over the past 10 days had "made 38 full-grown cats bite the dust, and that, too, without the aid of shotgun or poison." As disturbers of the peace, neither celebrating cowboys nor dueling gunmen could hold a candle to the feral cats that roamed the streets and disrupted the dreams of folks in mining towns, cow towns and other settlements across the Old West. [Extracted from the article] |
