Conference misery::feline_v1

2730.0. "Cat/kittens at the Fram. Dog Pound" by STOREM::DALEY () Thu Aug 03 1989 14:40

    I had stopped off to make a payment on my never-ending vet bill
    when I ran into the Framingham Dog Office, who is a casual acquaintance
    of mine. I hadn't seen her for a while so we had a short visit.
    I, thinking she had brought in a dog for treatment, walked over
    to the waiting room section and discovered she had brought 8 cats
    for their FeLV tests. The Framingham Humane Society handles the
    cats - usually - and the Town pound houses the dogs. Well, Jacki
    said the FAHS was footing the bill - but how she acquired the cats
    and kittens was quite disturbing- and was happening with great
    frequency lately. And she did not have an answer to the problem.
    
    The layout of the dog pound is such that each pen has an outside run
    bounded by a 7-10 foot chain link fence. Well people have been
    cutting thru the fence to get their (?) dog. Then the town has to
    replace the fence. Expensive. To aid in alleviating the problem,
    the town has placed still another higher fence around the pens with
    a walk-way between the new and old fence. Well it seems people have
    been tossing cats and kittens over the outside fence - during the night
    and even in the day while the officers are away on their canine control
    business. She said she hates to come in the mornings because she
    never knows how many cats she will find. I didn't ask her if all
    the tossed cats actually make it OVER the fence. Little kittens
    are thrown too. I was appalled- to say the least. Anyway, of the
    cats she had brought this day were two Siamese X, each with a kitten
    of about 8 weeks, a tiger, and a large orange neutered cat. It was
    so pathetic!! She said she had another 6 cats at the pound waiting
    for homes, and the only reason she could take care of these cats
    is because the current dog population is down to 7.
    
    The Fram. Humane Society is running out of room with their qpprox.
    130 cats, but it is doing what it can to help with housing, and
    the FAHS foots all their medical bills. 
                                                              
    But how can people literally throw their cats- with babies - over
    a 10 foot fence.!!! It makes me ill.
                             
    Well, if anyone is looking for cats or kittens - there are some
    at the Framingham Dog pound too (with all the same shots as those
    at the shelter receive). I know conditions at the pound are good, 
    but the "process" of how the cats end up there is disgusting.
    
    I don't know what the answer is either.
    
    
    
                                           

    The Bosler Animal Shelter has the same problem too.
    Elaine Bosler said cats/kittens are frequently thrown over
    her stockade fence.  Unfortunately, one of her dog pens
    butts part of the fence and cats frequently get thrown
    into a pack of dogs.  Sometimes she's able to get in the
    pen in time to rescue the cat, others times she's not.
    
    Donna

    
    
    	How horrible!!
    
    	It appalls and depresses me every time I hear about people
    	like that...
    
    	I just wish that for one day, all the cats and dogs that
    	have been abused, grow to be 100x their size.....so they
    	can abuse the people who have wronged them.
    
    	JJ
    

    I don't know if the pound here in Colorado Springs has the same
    problem, but what about the option of *volunteers* to patrol the 
    area?
    
    Poor little furfaces....
    
    Carol
    

    JJ,
    
    I'm with you 100%.  
    
    Sandi (mom to Lightning, DejaVu & Thunder) and also of the deceased but
            definetly loved Keisha (a former abused dog)
    
    

    How about a posted notice n the fence that cats should be taken to the 
    Humane Society?  Maybe people don't know this.
    

    Only problem is if they take the cats to FAHS and there's no room
    then they're back where they started.