My Cousin Kim was on her front porch the other night, and
saw two ladies with giant cages on our street. She called mom, then went down
the street to the vacant lot to talk to them. Mom watched her from our front
porch. Then she went back in the house and I followed. She put on some
slippers, then left and closed the door behind her. She wouldn’t let me go with
her. She seemed agitated.
When Mom returned, I heard her talking to Aunt Elaine on the
phone. Apparently these women were from the Animal Rescue League. They had
gotten a complaint from someone on the street that there were too many feral
cats around. I guess cats without owners or homes are called “ferals.”
Mom said there were a lot of cats and kittens on the street.
But that was all the time. She also wondered if the woman she saw before a few
months ago was the same one who kidnapped Angel’s mom from next door. They said
she wasn’t a feral cat because the entire neighborhood fed her, and let her in
their homes. The lady next door had even let Angel’s mom have her kittens on
her porch, and had given Angel to cousin Kellyn when she was 6 weeks old. Kim
had even let her in the house so she could nurse Angel, her baby.
I remember that time. Everyone was sad, upset and angry that
Chloe, that’s Angel’s mom, was abducted and taken away. The rumor was that the
men on the street even saw it happen, yet did nothing but let the stranger take
her. Mom said the next time they adopt a feral cat or kitten, they should put a
collar on the ones they feed.
Anyway, these ladies said they would have the ones they
caught spayed and neutered and given good homes. I have my suspicions about all
of this. For one thing, those cats were keeping the mouse population down in
the neighborhood. So why would people not want them around? Next, I heard the
Animal Rescue League had more than enough cats that they had trouble even
giving them away.
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