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Feathers, fur fly in N,J. town's standoff between cats, endangered birds

By Wayne Parry
Associated Press

Monday, August 6, 2007

CAPE MAY, N.J. — Cats are as much a part of this seaside town's genteel culture as rainbow-colored Victorian bed-and-breakfasts, trolley tours and cocktails on the porch at sunset. They're also suspect No. 1 in many deaths of the endangered piping plover, a fist-sized, white-and-brown fuzzball of a bird that has closed beaches and stopped development projects in the interest of protecting their habitat. With only 115 pairs of piping plovers left in the state, the federal governmen ...

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