Help Save the Cats....

This post was in Cat Rescue...PLEASE check out these links and sign the petition.

Basically Akron, OH and the LA/San Pedro area of California are attempting to euthanize ALL cats found running loose.

Bari_d

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Here is the San Pedro Petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/spfcc2/petition.html


Feral Cat Caretakers' Coalition
In a message dated 8/21/2002 8:24:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


An update for everyone

Lauren and just returned from a very intense and urgent meeting with key persons who will be involved in saving the lives of the cats at White Point in San Pedro, California.The cats will be trapped by a private exterminating company (not Dept. of Animal Services). ?Refer to www.peninsulapetrescue.com
for updates.

Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors has hired them to remove and exterminate the cats. ?Mary Kaleta, the person who has been responsibly caring for some 60 cats was notified of this on Monday 8-19-02. ?Mary and the
ladies who have been with her for several years feeding the feral cats at White Point, went to an attorney this a.m. and paid $2,000.00 to see if an injunction could be obtained to give us some time. ?It is Wednesday evening and they are to begin trapping and exterminating on Monday. ?As far as we
know, there are no guidelines on how they exterminate the cats as they are not under city jurisdiction, such as Department of Animal Services, where they would be taken to a shelter.

In addition to maintaining and managing her feral cat colony, Mary has spent a considerable amount of time and money to build little insulated shelters to blend in with the environment into the large boulders on the beach. ?It took several months of measuring, etc., to provide a safe and warm place for the
cats to stay. ?This was authorized and given the go ahead by Dan Knapp.
?The lifeguard, Kenny Atkins, who has just recently come to this beach, pulled out and destroyed all of the shelters she had worked so hard to put in place. He is also the person who has instigated this entire pogrom. ?We are not clear as to what his motives are.

It was heartbreaking to see the cats hiding in the boulders without proper shelter with winter coming. ?Under the best circumstances, their lives are meager and they look forward to their food and shelter and the loving care of the caretaker to go there every morning, rain or shine, to put out their food. ?The beach is mainly rocks and tide pools, not much of a sandy area.
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You would hardly know they were there and have been for 20 years in comparative peace - until now.
If you would like to comment on the petition, you can contact
the author of the petition by email, at:

Mary Kaleta, [email protected]