A CAT-ASTROPHE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 11

A CAT-ASTROPHE

fellne Problem LONDON, Dec. 14. An eviction order, “owing to their’ archaeological incompatibility,” hanging over the heads of a tribe of more than 100: cats living in Trajan’s Fomin has been delivered to, the Roman Animal Lovers’ .Society, which has beep ordered' to remove them within a short period, says the Rome correspondent of the Times. A hope that they would have been motored to a healthy suburban. rfesdrt, in which they would pass the remainder of their days on the dole at the public expbnse, proved illusory, owing to tlie economic crisis, and the society is faced with the unhappy dilemma, either of themselves suppressing, the cats bv the most humanitarian methods or bf allowing the city authorities to eliminate them, unless people are willing to afford them hospitality. The society offers transport of the cats to such persons as will provide maintenance for them and treatment when they are sick. Although notice to.this effect appeared only this morning, 20 offers to receive the cats have reached the society, which is determined to save the animals at all costs.