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Battle Over Stray Cats In Queens

What do you do when you find a troupe of stray cats living outside your apartment building? There's currently a debate going on in Queens over how to handle the hundreds of feral cats that have set up shop at Ravenswood, a 31-building complex on the Astoria/LIC border.

According to the Daily News, the New York City Housing Authority wants them out, but some residents, like Debi Romano, are standing up against their plan — which includes tactics like sealing up crawl spaces (where kittens may have already been sealed alive!).

Instead of trapping the cats and bringing them to shelters, Romano is attempting to get a grant through her SaveKitty Foundation, so she could fund a trap, neuter and release program. While some kittens would be adopted, others would be released after being spayed or neutered.

The NYCHA have rejected Romano's proposal, though she says her plan is the only way to cut down the stray cat population.

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  • Stewart

    The problem is likely all of the idiots in the 31 building complex who get a kitten because it's cute, never neuter it, and then move out and decide to "leave the cat behind".



    Trap, neuter and release program; start with the cats and then work your way up to the people in the projects.

  • mslioness

    Why should anyone have a problem with kittens hanging around?

    WTF!

    Instead of worrying about kittens, people should worry about birth control and then maybe the planet wouldn't be so overpopulated.

  • potsmoker

    nobody abused Justice,

    that was a feral dog!!!!!!!

    neuter it, then release it back into the wild.

    au natural!

  • just saying

    Rehab just phoned. They said it looks like you're due for another pot detoxification.



    Per special request, they've also promised to neuter you and then release you back into the wild. Au natural!

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    FYI- the Abusers of Justice have been identified.



    http://gothamist.com/2009/12/23/for_unknown_reason_neglected_dog_re.php

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    I didn't realize Comedy Central played at Gothamist yesterday. I would have bought tickets for this Improv.

  • Snoopy

    I just got word from Felix's "girl friend". He's up in Canada doing some goose hunting until the first of the year.

  • Spirit of 76

    Still no comments from felix after all this time. I bet he's out tracking down that vicious old man who harnessed and enslaved all those flying reindeer instead of letting them have fun playing their reindeer games.

  • nicemarmot

    There's definitely something worse than feeding stray cats - feeding the flying rats.

  • Snoopy

    Just as there are bike riders that want to transform NYC into a larger Amsterdam, there are others that have fond memories of their Perillo tour of Italy. Especially the warm sunny afternoon when they were feeding the pigeons in the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Oh if only we could make the plaza at Times Square justa like Europe. Fly TWA (RIP Peter Sellers.)

  • HOTCUP

    "a 31-building complex on the Astoria/LIC border."



    might not look so far on google maps, but ravenswood is pretty well inside LIC.



    there's nothing worse than people who feed feral cats. coming from somebody who likes cats. she should be fined for exacerbating the problem.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    Little Miss Kitty, I am shocked at you. Next thing you say is don't give any money to the homelessness because it only encourage smore of them. Shame on you. Feeding the cats is not the problem. I recalled Snoopy once mention that a lot of issues stems from overpopulation of people. He is right on that. In theory, I think it's unfair for cats to be neuter and deprive of having litters since it's their right. HOWEVER IN REALITY, there are too many of them homeless and they can't survive well in the streets of NYC (Cars, diseases etc). Neutering solves the problem. In less than a couple of years (average lifespan of feral cats is 2-4 years), the number dwindles drastically. KIlling them is cruel and solve the problem. Shame on NYC. This city is really a 3rd world country with very nasty ignorant people.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    KILLING them is Cruel and DOESN'T solve the problem. Bloomberg and Quin are such really miserable ugly people. It is so inexpensive to neuter them but they rather spend more money killing them.

  • idiolect

    Trap, neuter/spay, release; take kittens to shelters; appreciate the rat problem that the area doesn't have.

  • seth matthew

    I have cats and like them very much, but trying to save strays is like moving the desert a grain of sand at a time.

  • Snoopy

    According to the Daily News, the New York City Housing Authority has reached out to FelixtheCat and are waiting for his opinion regarding what to do next. Felix meanwhile, vacationing at a horse farm upstate, was unavailable for comment.

  • hotstepper

    excellent.

  • hotstepper

    felix you bleeding-heart illiterate bastard, time to put your money where your mouth is.

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