RICHARD
09-30-2004, 03:57 PM
Town advertises for cat army
A Mexican town is advertising for an army of cats to kill off a plague of rats.
Authorities in Atascaderos have posted ads in Mexican newspapers asking for people to donate their cats.
They want to give at least 700 cats to local families to kill off an invasion of 500,000 rats.
A spokesman for the town's mayor said officials had already tried poison and traps but succeeded only in killing all the local cats.
Emilia de Leon, from Mexico's Animal Protection Society, said she was concerned about the formation of an army of cats.
She told Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper: "It would be a big mistake if the cats have not been castrated. They would end the rat plague but then they would have a cat plague!"
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Everyone knows you can't get and army of cats to march in formation....
A Mexican town is advertising for an army of cats to kill off a plague of rats.
Authorities in Atascaderos have posted ads in Mexican newspapers asking for people to donate their cats.
They want to give at least 700 cats to local families to kill off an invasion of 500,000 rats.
A spokesman for the town's mayor said officials had already tried poison and traps but succeeded only in killing all the local cats.
Emilia de Leon, from Mexico's Animal Protection Society, said she was concerned about the formation of an army of cats.
She told Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper: "It would be a big mistake if the cats have not been castrated. They would end the rat plague but then they would have a cat plague!"
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Everyone knows you can't get and army of cats to march in formation....