Septuagenarian Cat Killer

JUNE 24--Meet Myrtle Maly. The 76-year-old Wisconsin woman was arrested this week for poisoning her neighbor's cats after the animals came into her backyard and attacked some birds. Maly, charged with two felony animal mistreatment raps, admitted to Madison cops that she placed d-Con rodent killer into a can of cat food (the normally yummy 'Special Kitty Salmon Dinner') and set the chow out for Tiger and Tangerine, neighbor Robert Yu's felines. While Maly told investigators she only intended to sicken, not kill, the cats, she did not appear devastated about their demise, according to the below criminal complaint. 'When I find these little feathers, I've had it. I love animals, but he drove me to it,' she told a detective. 'I have a good feeling because the birds are happy now.' The septuagenarian cat killer, who said she resorted to the poison after getting no help from animal control authorities, faces three years in jail if convicted in the double slaying. (4 pages)