I'd call it damage control. I'll worry about where they're going when I get them all in one place, though I do appreciate the warning that my closet could be a direct channel to the cat black market and I have stolen felines on my hands.

_{[Give him something worth paying attention to while he's pulling kittens off curtains and out from under beds, and he'll pay attention to it. Otherwise, he'll save the regrets and unfounded theories for a rainy day. She can educate him on animal outbreaks and the value of disappearing cats then.]}