JS> Robert Heinlein, affirmed cat lover and grandious cat name giver, if
 JS> my  memory serves right, once indicated of having no compunction of
 JS> shooting  feral cats, while at the same time would protect his own cats
 JS> to the nth  degree.  He would of course begin protecting them by not
 JS> letting them out  where they could get into trouble in the first place.
 (I'm working without a net here)
 "Grumbles from Beyond the Grave," the first book published by Baen
 after the master's  death, described his being unhappy at the
 necessity of having to kill a feral cat that was harrasing his own.
 This was at the time of his building his own house in Colorado.
 His attitude towards cats comes through pretty well, imo, in "The Door
 Into Summer," wherein he describes his cat as refusing to go outside
 until it had attempted to find the "correct" door during inclement
 weather.
 Oh, the on-topic part: in the description of Heinlein shooting the
 feral cat he used a handgun, as I recall a .45, and mentioned he was
 pleased his accuracy was adequate to the job.  AAMOF it was his ability
 to shoot that resulted in the invention of the waterbed, but that's a
 story for another conference. 
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