What Not to Do When You Find a Lost Cat

Two weeks ago, as TW was heading home from shopping, she spied what looked like a cat "turkeyed" on the sidewalk near a fence. What a strange sight! Cats don't usually sit out in the open especially not a block from an elementary school. As TW approached, the cat got up, walked up to her and rubbed against her legs. He was smallish in stature and painfully thin and malnurished. TW thought, well, this isn't a feral cat but it has no collar ergo someone must have dumped him from a car.

BtC4A—Dateline, Newark, NJ

I don’t look happy, do I?

Lately, I’ve been reading too many online posts about cats and kittens found alive in dumpsters. While these stories are hard to read and harder to comprehend, I’m going to report today on an atrocity that happened practically in my own backyard. Newark, NJ, isn’t that far from my little condo. All photos below are used by permission of Associated Humane Societies, Newark Branch.