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PORTSMOUTH, Va. _ The Navy's top admiral has ordered that all stray and feral cats and dogs be removed from Navy installations and that programs to trap, neuter and release the animals cease by 2003.
Adm. Vern Clark's new policy, contained in a letter released Jan. 10, means another chapter of flying fur in the wild cat saga of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
The Alley Cat Allies, a Washington-based nonprofit organization contracted to manage the cat population at the Portsmouth shipyard, called it a "death sentence for feral cats and dogs on Navy property" on its Web site.
Although the order from the Chief of Naval Operations calls for the "humane ...