European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Something Nice for cats today s Cross word United press International j. Simmons believes that when life hands you manure it is just an Opportunity to fertilize your Rose Garden. Thai is How he came to develop his habitat Cage and Tunnel system or getting cats and their sandboxes outdoors. Recently Lite has not been a bed of roses or Simmons he went through a divorce his cat was run Over then he was Laid off As a piping designer in the Oil Industry. Money has been so Short lately that Simmons sometimes rifles dumpsters for aluminium cans to sell Lor lunch Money. But he said Success and financial Reward seem almost within his grasp. Orders for his product Are beginning to trickle in and he is looking for some inexpensive shop space so he can move his one Man Assembly line from the backyard of his rented House. The divorce left him with financial obligations he barely was Able to meet with his Job. So when he was Laid off last August he figured rather than try or another spot in he suffering Oil Industry he would become an entrepreneur and take a shot at making some big , in the process he could do something Nice for cats. I have known some very special cats Simmons said. Carmichael and Catalina live with me now. They come to me if i snap my fingers or Call them. That has been True of my last half dozen cats. I m Able to establish this rapport with them because i meet them on their level instead of trying to Force them to meet me on  but Many of the cats Simmons has known mat tragic ends. Like Charley. She was solid Black Down to her whiskers and  Simmons said. Bright Gold eyes. Semi Long hair. She was extremely intelligent and socially interactive while retaining her traditional feline  Simmons found Charley at the Denver dumb friends league where his Mother was a Volunteer. His Mother often tried to convince him cats should be kept indoors but he would t listen. I believe cats need open air he said.  then one Day Charley was killed. Run Over right in front of my House Simmons said. For his next cat a Friend gave Simmons a Cage made several years earlier for another feline. It had a heavy Wood Frame covered in Chicken wire. It protected a cat while allowing it to be outside but it was heavy Bulky hard to set up and ugly. Simmons who said he does not like Sandbox maintenance designed an improved version of the Cage with a Light Metal Frame sturdy Metal mesh sides and a plexiglass Tunnel connecting the Cage to a door or window of the House. And now his cats can come and go be inside or out As they choose. His habitat system is designed so the component parts can be easily shipped to cat owners. The Cage is eight feet Long three feet wide and three feet High. It goes together with a screwdriver Simmons said. He said practically anyone can assemble the product in about an hour. A Basic setup with Cage Bench Tunnel and window adapter costs about $300. Simmons said he realizes that May seem expensive to some but How do you put a Price on your cat s happiness and remember the average life expectancy of a cat allowed to run free outdoors is Only three years but it s four times As Long or an indoor cat that is protected from fights and traffic and All the other common  Simmons recently demonstrated his habitat As part of a promotion at the dumb friends league in Denver. He said league officials later called and asked him to put a unit on permanent display. He said he thinks that will generate some orders and he expects others will come from veterinarians who have expressed interest and support. He said when he gets solvent enough he will buy some advertising and when orders begin coming in faster than he can fill by himself he knows plenty of qualified people to hire. I be got an awful lot of friends that Are sitting around watching daytime to since the Bottom dropped out of the Oil barrel he said. Missing the Humpback whales  associated Pressa nearly extinct Breed of whales has replaced the playful Humpback whales off the Massachusetts coast and those who make a living conducting whale watch cruises say the phenomenon May ruin them. Mysterious changes in the sea Are also causing other forms of fee to give Way to less familiar ones. I did not Gross As much in july with three boats As i did with two the year before. It s damaged me Many thousands of dollars said Al Avelar who runs a $500,000-a-year whale watch business out of Provincetown. For weeks whale watch boats Laden with camera toting of Uris stave searched in vain for the 1,000 huge Humpback whales that used to Kvinge on Stelwagen Bank just 20 Miles off the coast. What the boats have found instead Are right whales a nearly extinct Breed hat usually Summers off new Jersey. Tuna also Are missing from their usual spots. Biologist Bill Jerome of the National Marine fisheries service in Gloucester said about 120 tons of tuna have be a landed so far this summer Leas than one Laird of last year s catch at this time. And spiny Dogfish Are eluding the few Gloucester fishermen who make their livelihood off the Sharks said Steven Murawski an Emfs biologist in Woods Hole. Meanwhile giant fish called basking Sharks recently were spotted As dose As so Yards from Massachusetts Southern shores. Police closed beaches in several towns Over the weekend despite the assurances of scientists that the Sharks were harmless. A 15-foot thing like that would scare anybody said police officer John Martin. What s causing Odd creatures to show up off the coast and familiar ones to disappear Are As yet unexplained changes in the Northeast Atlantic biologists say. One such inexplicable change is a sudden uniformity of water surface temperatures that before this summer had fluctuated radically said Paul Sieswerda curator of fisheries and mammals at the new England aquarium. But the most obvious change has been a sudden Scarcity of Pencil thin animals called Sand eels the Staple diet of Many of the whales and fish that have vanished from familiar places. I be been in the Sand eel business 55 years and i be always seen plenty off Stelwagen said Malcolm Hudson owner of Hudson s Oul boarding inc. Of Newburyport. They re very scarce this  . .   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