BATH — Kathy Aldrich swears there’s a correlation between the end of the academic year at MSU and the proliferation of stray cats around her house, near Rose Lake.
Aldrich, who has lived near the recreation area for 16 years, admitted that her conclusion regarding MSU students is based on anecdotal information, rather than hard data. Two different student, she said, told her about friends who couldn’t take their cats home at the end of the school year and simply “took them in the country and released them.”
They believed the cats could make a living as predators and, by winter, find adequate shelter.
But Aldrich, who said she has no particular affinity for felines, said she sees ample evidence — in starving, feral cats — that it doesn’t work that way.
