New Zealand conservationists hunted 'Nine Lives', a feral tabby that killed dozens of endangered pāteke ducks and evaded traps for three years before…

fifteen gone before the week closed.

Salmon, fried chicken, rabbit on the hinge,

three years of science outsmarted by paws.

Then it stopped running. Nobody knows why.

Three nights in a row.

Same patch of dirt.

Third night. The cage shut.

The legend got comfortable. That's how legends get caught.

Some wanted a zoo, a glass box for the famous.

The only thing that caught Nine Lives was Nine Lives getting comfortable.

Three nights in a row.

Stomach under analysis, legend under glass. Three nights... in a row.