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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Ed Clark, from the class of ’69 at Rappahannock County High School, is full of surprises.
Guess who was at Bill Clinton’s breakfast table, just five seats away from the President, on the morning of the signing of NAFTA? Ed Clark.
Who thinks cats are lethal weapons that should be kept indoors at all times? Ed Clark.
And who travels with a golden eagle in the back of his car? You know the name.
Mr. Clark is the irrepressible director of the Wildlife Center , of Virginia in Waynesboro.
He is dead serious about his nonprofit business, but you cannot talk to him for more than 10 minutes without laughing.
The man would be a comedian if he were not saving Virginia’s animals. This explains how he kept a large audience at the Rappahannock Library riveted to him for more than an hour last Friday night.
Mr. Clark’s problem with cats — and he speaks as a cat-owner himself — is that house-cat attacks are responsible for one out of five wild animals brought to his center for veterinary treatment.
“We can only save 50 percent of them, because the bite of a cat is so infectious,” said Mr. Clark. “And the ones saved require strong doses of expensive antibiotics.”
Mr. Clark said cats not only attack com
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