Animal Control Watch

For those of you who don’t already read the excellent LA Animal Watch, here’s the scoop:

Seems a gentleman in Los Angeles has been TNRing cats in his neighborhood. That’s a good thing to do, right?

Keeps feral cat population under control, keeps rodent population under control, etc.

No vacuum effect.

Not to mention it is the humane thing to do.

So, what happens?

The neighbors start complaining. And not just complaining, but throwing metal pipes at the cats, poisoning the cats, installing 9 video cameras to monitor the gentleman’s property, throwing cat feces at the gentleman’s girlfriend, etc.
The City Attorney’s solution to this? Stop feeding the cats.

A friend of mine called this gentleman last night and talked to him for over an hour. Apparently he is allowed to have a birdbath (because the neighbors are not complaining about the birds, I’m guessing) and the adult cats drink out of that. However, the kittens cannot reach it and one tried to drink out of his pool and drowned. Cats have been poisoned and killed off his property while searching for food.

This gentleman foolishly let representatives of the City of Los Angeles into his home. Apparently he has 6 litterboxes in his home. One litterbox had feces outside of it (cats have been known to miss). They took a picture of this one. He asked if they wanted to take a picture of the clean one. They said “Oh no, we won’t need that.” (Gee, I wonder why). People, don’t let anyone in your house without a warrant. This is a recipe for disaster.

See relevant articles on LA Animal Watch:

http://laanimalwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-want-to-apologize.html

http://laanimalwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/city-attorney-refuses-to-let-madow-give.html

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And the gentleman in question’s blog on the cats:

http://earthblog.net/eb-articles/cat_tribunals01.html