Neighbors Are Petty About Cats

In response to “Cat Hullabaloo: Posh Housing for 20 Felines Has Some Neighbors Snarling” (Times Valley Edition, March 13), I am amazed at the absolute stupidity, not to mention small-minded and ignorant attitudes, of Francine Katzenbogen’s neighbors in Studio City.

These worthies complain that the 20 cats Katzenbogen proposes to house in luxurious and confined accommodations on her own property will “create health problems, bother dogs, obstruct traffic and attract pet-eating coyotes.” Oh, and they might look out of their own windows, too!

That someone should fear being looked at by a few cats suggests a need for psychiatric help. As for coyotes coming down from the hills and preying on other neighborhood pets, why aren’t they there now if other pets are already available?

I suppose the cats’ dander is going to accumulate in a big cloud and seek out those in the neighborhood with allergies, whereas dander from those animals already at large would do no such thing.

One couple said they are worried about a lot of things. I think someone ought to be worried about them if someone else’s cat litter has them all atwitter.

Katzenbogen’s neurotic neighbors should be grateful that she was thoughtful enough to seek permission to keep her cats and to build such a wonderfully safe environment for these animals. She would have been better off to have said nothing.

My condolences to Katzenbogen on having to live in such a mean-spirited neighborhood.

ANGELA EGREMONT, Tujunga