21.   Farm animals had been shot or left to join the many stray cats and dogs wandering the fields.

22.   For more than a year, people who live in apartments near the homeless colony have complained of rotting trash, stray cats and bonfires smoldering in the night.

23.   Health officials have also voiced concern over the rapidly multiplying number of stray cats.

24.   He was a handyman known in his neighborhood for fixing bicycles and rescuing stray cats.

25.   I kept thinking a woman of my age and experience has better things to do than wait for a stray cat to eat.

26.   In the afternoon she could be seen tending stray cats under the arcades.

27.   Maddock absently petted a stray white cat as he watched the scene.

28.   Mrs. Hawkins, who died last March, was known for bringing soup to her sick neighbors, and for taking in stray cats.

29.   Or the burglar alarm set off by a stray cat at the bathroom window?

30.   Others mentioned the unchecked number of stray cats and dogs that have frustrated homeowners.