BY FROMA HARROP The fight goes on. Whether cats are bird-killing machines or soft balls of love [for themselves, anyway] remains a subject of painful debate. The first part is undoubtedly true. Cats in the United States destroy a median of 2.4 billion birds a year. Add to that death toll 2.3 billion mammals, many of them native creatures: chipmunks, rabbits and voles, reptiles and amphibians. These numbers came from a much-quoted report by scientists […]

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