About a month ago, I got an e-mail notice from my apartment complex: A fellow apartment dweller was spearheading a campaign to capture the feral cats (by putting out cages with food) in the complex in coordination with a City of Austin program to capture said cats, spay/neuter them, then allegedly release them back to where they came from.
Initially, this sounded like a great idea: I certainly didn't want the Pennys to reproduce. Except for the actual results: I used to have four members of the Penny Family that came to eat in my back yard. Since "The Program" began, Papa Penny and Lil' Penny have completely disappeared. I'm sure they were captured. But NOT "released back to where they came from." The other two, Penny and Henny, are still regular visitors to my back yard around 5pm, when they know I arrive home from work and will then feed them.
Yesterday, I got an e-mail notice from the apartment complex (sent out to everyone). Basically: The feral cats are still being fed, despite the efforts of the "do-gooders" to have them removed. We should all stop feeding the cats or else risk being written up and kicked out of the apartment complex. Maintenance men will be on the lookout for food/water dishes and/or bedding left out for the said illicit cats.
I've been feeding the Pennys every single day since July. I'm not about to stop and betray their trust.
Fucking ridiculous and corrupt and downright evil how an alleged policy of "we'll spay/neuter them and then return them to where they came from" turned into the captured not returning and then us people feeding the few smart enough to avoid capture getting punished.
Today was the first day of the policy. I removed the food/water dishes at 8am before the maintenance men showed up. Fed Penny and Henny as usual at 5pm when I got home. Fuck the stupid snowflake do-gooder cat-police.
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