Frustrations of a Rural Dump Ground

The people who took in the newborn kittens and their mother, found in a carboard box on a gravel road, in the rain, are frustrated. They took in nine last year alone, dumped at the grange and now these five, all with ringworm.

They do suspect a nearby neighbor. I have tried for years to get that neighbor to allow me to fix her cats. She used to tell me she would have a guy come over, that she knew to "take care of the kittens" born. In other words, she'd have him kill them. Since he worked where she worked and that is where I ran into her, and that warehouse was sold, she now may not have access to that form of "cat control" and may be the one dumping them instead.

I told the neighbors since she will not respond to them, nor to me, to just call a deputy and make a report on both dumpings, which should have been done immediately anyhow. And to ask him to go talk to her.

I have trapped or gotten cats fixed all around her. The neighbors call her a "collector" and have for years, yet none have done anything about this. Some would tell me they don't want involved, outside of wanting me to catch the overflow cats who end up on their property and for Poppa Inc. to pay for them to be fixed. Some are timid of not being "nice" to a neighbor. Yet the costs to neighbors and nonprofits like Poppa Inc. have been adding up. Time to get tougher and maybe not be so nice. She is not being nice or considerate to them.

Time to get the law to do their job, I'd say. Otherwise, the problems will go on and on. Because she is a bit on the "different" side, a visit from the law, might be the worse possible thing that could happen. She might just dump them all, in the night, elsewhere. I just don't know. Some neighbors may contact her landlord, one said, instead of the law, see if he will compel the fixing of all the cats on the property. That's always better, if it works, to not involve the law.