When a leading birdwatcher in Texas shot one of the feral cats that had been stalking piping plovers, he started the kind of war that only really concerned humans can wage.
-- Bruce Barcott

Out of curiosity, I boiled down the Jim Stevenson case and sent it to a few environmental-ethics professors. Most agreed: Shoot the cat.

Brilliant, unexpected satire of our collateral damage in the New York Times Magazine.

post-scriptum: it seems like someone had enough incidental lolcats exposure and decided to make some relief.