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Show Keep Cats THome, Warns Official Domestic cat owners are urged today by Ross Leonard, Utah state fish and game director, di-rector, to keep their pets confined con-fined to the house during the months of May and June when both song and game bird young are almost helpless. "The ordinary house cat has long been recognized by game technicians as being destructive destruc-tive to wildlife," Leonard pointed out. The worst of cats of course, is the one that actually ac-tually goes wild. These cats call home a nest under some abandoned building and there are thousands of them in Utah." The state game' chief explained, ex-plained, however, that for every ev-ery cat that takes up permanent perma-nent habitation in the fields, here are hundreds of occasion-pi occasion-pi hunters. These are the milk-lapping milk-lapping tabbies who part-time lie quietly in front of the fireplace. fire-place. "Even the most docil, home-loving home-loving cat with a warm bird in its mouth reverts to savagery," Mr. Leonard asserted. "Just try to remove a Baby bird from a cats mouth and you will be greeted by a warning growl you never dreamed could come, out of your miled-mannered tabby-" Cats selected for their mouse-catching ability are very useful, Mr. Leonard said, but he emphasized that they never be allowed to run in the wild, particularly during the spring months. |