The crusading anti cat zealot heard her sentence yesterday. No jail time, unless she breaks probation and goes near cats in the next year. The judge says the damage to her career is punishment enough.
The National Zoo accepted the resignation of Nico Dauphine on Monday, effective immediately. The researcher, whose field of interest is cats as a threat to birds, was convicted Monday of putting rat poison into cat food.
Alley Cat Allies has started a petition asking the National Zoo to remove accused cat poisoner Nico Dauphine from her position at the Smithsonian’s Migratory Bird Center. Her work includes tracking feral cats.
TNR advocates and cat lovers are hitting back after an Audubon Magazine columnist’s opinion piece recommends poisoning feral cats and suggests how to kill them.
If you have been bothered by recent stories demonizing cats as the scourge of nature, you can join Alley Cat Allies in telling the Smithsonian, which accepts and promotes that characterization, to stop.