Police say they’re seeking the owner of a cat found in the area of Husted Lane, near the Locust Avenue parking lot in downtown New Canaan.
The domestic short-hair tabby “accidentally scratched a New Canaan resident” Friday, according to a press release from the New Canaan Police Department.
She’s being quarantined until the owner is found, the press release said. The cat is a female tricolor with a distinct black collar with cross bones and skulls, police said. Dogs and cats must undergo a state-required quarantine for when they bite or scratch humans while off-property.
New Canaan’s Animal Control shelter is located at the dump, and it’s been criticized in the past as inadequate. Located in a former incinerator building at the Lakeview Avenue facility, it isn’t insulated and is subject to extreme temperatures. A discussion among the selectmen last year about how to address the problem has stalled.
Anyone with information on the cat is asked to contact Animal Control at 203-594-3510.
The last I heard, here in Surrey B.C. there are/were an estimated 36,000 feral and stray cats, so many of which are allowed to suffer severe malnourishment, debilitating injury and/or infection by callously neglectful municipal government as well as individual residents who choose to remain silent.
(Progress might also be made by discontinuing allowing pet cats to roam freely outdoors and notably risk them becoming another predator’s meal or some sadistic person’s target for a torturous death.)
When I made a monetary donation to the local Trap/Neuter/Release (TNR) program, a lady volunteer left me a tearful voice mail expressing her appreciation, which to me suggested a scarcity of caring financial donors.
No wonder cat Trap/Neuter/Release (TNR) programs are typically underfunded by governments and private donors, regardless of their documented success in reducing the needless great suffering by these beautiful, sentient animals.
I fear a possible presumption of feline disposability.
Could there be a subconscious human perception that the worth of such animal life (if not even human life in regularly war-torn or overpopulated famine-stricken global regions) is reflected by its overabundance and the protracted conditions under which it suffers? (Frank Sterle Jr.)
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“You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
—Paul McCartney