Death Row Cats Get Reprieve

The stray and feral cats that have overrun a middle American town can meow a little louder now that they have gotten a reprieve from a bounty the mayor had put on their whiskers -- a bounty he says he initiated to address the community's rampant cat problem. Luckily for the cats, animal rights activists immediately bared their claws when they learned of Randolph, Iowa's $5-per-cat program under which stray cats turned in for bounty would be killed if not claimed within seven days. "The idea...Full Story