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Lampert Smith: Feral threats make cats look tame

Cat lovers have been coming at a UW-Madison professor with sharpened claws after his cat research was described in this newspaper Sunday.

Two police agencies are investigating death threats against wildlife ecologist Stan Temple, who has also received dozens of round-the-clock phone calls at home and work after a Wisconsin State Journal article about a debate over whether feral cats should be shot.