Wildlands Are No Place for Cats

* Re “Activists Angry Over Fate of Cats,” (April 26):

I can understand that Boeing Co. wanted to remove the cats from its Seal Beach property and perhaps it is unfortunate that the earlier agreement about these animals was not honored.

However, by far the larger issue is that a professional pest control company would dump these cats in parkland in “an outlying part of Orange County.”

That these cats were probably eaten by coyotes is the best one might hope for. A far worse possibility is that they might have survived to prey on the native birds and wildlife of the area.

For a professional animal control company to release them into the wild is highly unethical and environmentally unconscionable.

JERRY W. NORTON

Orange

* I was dismayed to read that Admiral Pest Control routinely releases stray cats into outlying parts of Orange County and that the cats they captured at a Boeing facility in Seal Beach were released at Peters Canyon Regional Park.

It is inhumane for the cats and inhumane for the birds and wildlife.

CAROLE MINTZER

Orange