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Letter to the Editor

Feeding feral cats

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Dear Editor,

Someone has been feeding feral cats in our neighborhood (East Fifth and E), but has not had the decency to have the mother cat spayed. That includes whoever has provided shelter for her and her last litter during freezing weather this winter.

Come see for yourself--plenty of cat food spread under the tail end of an old milk delivery truck. Sometimes someone has put the turkey remains right there too.

It breaks my heart that many of the kittens get distemper and there is one gold tabby that can only see out of one eye because of the disease that affected it as a kitten.

Thank you.

Kathleen Bills,

McCook

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  • Start catching them and taking them to the Humane Society. If you can find the mother cat, take her to a vet or the Humane Society. Don't just sit back and watch it happen...be proactive!

    -- Posted by FNLYHOME on Wed, Feb 18, 2009, at 1:18 PM
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    I agree with "Rural Citizen". If you see food scraps there, remove them. If you can catch the cats remove them as well. Some people can not stand to know that animals / humans may be hungry, and they can not resist but to "help" them. This is the bitter sweet way of America. Good Luck to you, God Bless!!!

    -- Posted by cplcac on Wed, Feb 18, 2009, at 3:41 PM

  • Because of the bite risk, the humane society prefers to not take in feral cats. Primarily because bite wounds usually require a week or two of antibiotics and the animal must go through either 10 days of quarantine or have the brain sent in for rabies testing. Kittens, if captured young enough, are sometimes much tamable but not always. Don't get yourself bit.

    -- Posted by amystrauch on Fri, Feb 20, 2009, at 6:59 PM

  • Go do something about it yourself. Some people, as already stated, cannot stand to sit back and watch an animal, or human suffer. Maybe, you and your awesome ways, could take these cats and neuter/spay them!!! You obviously know "which" is the MOTHER cat. Instead of walking around, watching these cats and taking notes on what kind of food scraps people are giving to them you could do something more productive!!! Such as house one, or find them homes, something besides just writing in wanting someone else to solve something that bothers you. You make my stomach turn more than seeing a cat starve...or freeze.

    -- Posted by thimself on Sat, Mar 7, 2009, at 11:41 AM
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