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Members of the Humane Society of
Mason County trapped 72 feral cats on
a wooded compound off Johns Prairie
Road, spayed and neutered them, and
then returned most of them to the same
site.
1" “Feral cats don’t make godd house
pets,” said Lynda Haskell, the group’s
treasurer. ‘-
She added, “They can bite you, and
scratch you.” .
Kitten Rescue of Mason County in
Shelton is full. And the Humane Society
of Mason County does not yet have a fa-
cility — it needs about $3 million to build
and stafl‘ an animal shelter and officer
space on 5 acres next to North Mason
High School in Belfair. Last August, the
nonprofit organization cleared the prop-
erty and installed a driveway.
Afew weeks ago, a man called the Hu—
mane Society to say feral cats were stray-
ing near a storage rental unit he is living
in on Johns Prairie Road. ‘
“I said, ‘You’re only getting the over-
flow,’ ” said Katherine Johnson, a mem-
ber of the board who has been trapping
cats for 10 years.
Six members of the group searched
the area near Aloha Court, Rhododen-
dron Place and Challenger Drive and the
local businesses.
“One of my Volunteers said, ‘I found it,’ ”
Johnson said. .
The site is the home of an 88-year-
old woman who lost her partner a
couple years ago. She has been feeding
cats on the property for 20 years. Holes
have delveloped in the floor of an over-
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~72 feral cats captured, fixed, released
Katherine Johnson, a cat trapper for 10 years and a member of the Humane
Society of Mason County, on Tues-
day waits for the last of 72 feral cats — now spayed and neutered to
return to the Johns Prairie property where
they roamed. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
tured home, where the cats receive food
and water.
“It was probably one of the saddest
situations we’ve ever seen,” Haskell said.
“When we said we were with the
Humane Society, she was embar—
rassed,” Johnson said.
People dump their cats at the mill
d0wn the road, Johnson said. Short-
term renters also leave their felines
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behind, she said.
It took a couple of weeks to trap
all the cats. 1
Of the 72. cats, only one was spayed
or neutered: the owner’s house cat.
Eleven were transferred elsewhere;
two had severe dental diseases, fe-
line coron‘avirus.
On Tuesday afternoon, Haskell
and Johnson drove the last 11 cats
inc.
‘1 roofine
to the property. They were a mix: a
Siamese, tuxedos, tabbies, all black.
Most were reluctant to leave the car-
riers, even with the~doors Wide open.
Once 'outside, they scurried under
vehicles or bolted into the tall grass,
and presumably back into the dou-
ble-wide where food awaits.
“We can’t do anything more for
them,” Haskell said.
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