[Local Family Loses House & Pets to Saturday Fire]

Local Paulding County Animal Control and Paulding Humane Society volunteer, Edna Dowd and husband Steve, lost most of their possessions and three of their cats to a house fire on Saturday, February 13th.

 

Edna has been a dedicated volunteer with the animals here for many years working fostering pets until they could be adopted, helping at the shelter weekly and at fundraising events. If you would like to help this family who have worked so hard to make a difference in the community a fundraising page has been set up at FUNDRAZR https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/816Lke/ab/61Vcm1 with more information.

 

 

[Does Paulding have a Cat Problem? Alley Cat Allies to present to BOC]

There is a theory that the bubonic plague was brought about because of a lack of feral cats. For awhile cats were believed to be the spawn of evil and to be killed on sight. Which allowed the rodent population to explode and therefore infest Europe with fleas and spread the disease.

 

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I have seen several cats wandering the area and as long as they don't decide to take up residence here and keep killing the field mice, chipmunks and other small critters, I will let them be.

It should be against the law.What a waste of money and time.I shoot every feral cat I see.

Are there any animals you don't shoot and kill?

 

 

The problem is when these feral cats are left to multiply. If fixed and in moderation they can be very beneficial in pest control of especially rats and snakes.

 

Animal control intakes, houses and then kills hundreds of feral cats each year. It is costly.

 

SG, this isn't a new problem. The recession has made it worse, but it has been a big problem for a long time. Spaying and neutering your pets would save everyone a lot of money, time and trouble.

[Mr. Wesley Lamar Graham June 24, 1953 - June 12, 2014]

So very sorry to hear this, SS.