Take one long term cat colony, add a compassionate community already feeding and removing adoptables and you have a suburb ripe for a TNR program.
Unfortunately Parramatta Council is unable to see any other option, but to have the cats removed;
Cats have been seen around Parramatta Town Hall but the biggest problem seems to be in Telopea, exacerbated by locals feeding them.
Parramatta councillor Michael McDermott told the Advertiser that the cat problem at Telopea had reached “plague proportions”.
“About 100 feral and domestic cats are living behind the shops in Telopea,” Cr McDermott said.
“They can also be found living near a big unit block”
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But a Telopea business owner said cats had been around the area for years without anyone worrying about them.
“But someone who doesn’t like cats has moved into the area and is making a fuss,” the business owner said.The Advertiser understands that shop owners have been trapping cats and taking them to a local vet who desexes them and tries to find them homes.
A spokeswoman for the Cat Protection Society said her organisation “no longer had the resources to trap cats” but advised that they should be desexed. ref
What a shame council are ignoring the wishes of resident cat lovers, referring to the cats as a disease ridden plague, and cat ‘welfare’ groups are maintaining a ‘not our problem’ approach, when all this community really needs is some compassionate leadership.
Is there anyone in the Parramatta region that could help out?
