Merritt Clifton, former editor of the animal-rights magazine The Animal's Agenda, is crusading for cat control. Clifton wants to make it a crime for cat owners to let their pets go outside because "cats have a nasty tendency to kill birds, rabbits, frogs, and other cute creatures. A housecat hunts for fun. It gets all its calories indoors, and then it goes out to devastate whatever there is to devastate."

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