ROFL, I don’t think so. It may be the food crisis. I actually had to disect a cat in college Anatomy Lab, because they couldn’t afford cadavars. It changed my mind about Med School. I went in another direction.
So maybe he collected cats to sell to college labs was a part time job. Mine looked like it had been run over, as it was bruised inside.
We did cats in college, and also at the HS where I taught biology. They generally looked like alley cats, and you could order pregnant ones too.
susie