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http://www.care2.com/causes/zoo-rese...ning-cats.htmlNico Dauphine, the National Zoo bird researcher who was arrested for sprinkling rat poison in the food bowls of a feral cat colony in her Washington D.C. neighborhood was found guilty of animal cruelty.
Dauphine, a Ph.D. who specializes in the conservation of migratory birds for the National Zoo was charged earlier this year after caretakers of a feral cat colony found an unusual material in the cats food bowls. When the substance turned out to be rat poison, the Washington Humane Society placed video cameras in the area to catch the culprit.
The footage caught Dr. Dauphine stopping outside her apartment building, opening a plastic bag and pouring the contents into the food bowls of the feral cats.