Responsibility for feral cats lies with us
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Editor,
This is a copy of a letter sent to the City of Polson, Polson City Mayor, personnel overseeing city workers and to the Valley Journal.
I am a Polson city resident and taxpayer. I don’t feed the gulls at the city lake park – I feed the feral cat colony – one of 4 city groups located at a city equipment shed across the street from WBC and adjacent to the local food bank. At present there is no humane program to curb and support these feral victims of man’s negligence. I am working on humane ways to address this problem. I have only been feeding at this site since this fall. Today I noticed these little guys are having to use this covered dirt area as a giant cat box. Law of life – what goes in the body as food filters out as waste. What normal cat would try to use ice and snow for a cat box? We have a humane responsibility for these Polson feral citizens. One doesn’t have to like cats to have compassion for them as an earth-sharing species. One just needs to be a bit evolved as a human being. All to say and inform you that when weather permitting, I will be responsible for removing the “used dirt” and replacing it with “clean” dirt. By then this “Magic 30” colony will be taking to the fields for their cat box.
Joan St. John
Polson
