It had to happen! As a result of the SPCA's well meaning but ill thought out policy of 're-homing” stray and unwanted cats, they are now swamped with them.
Weekend Sun 15-4-11 the Manager states that they are turning people away who want to get rid of their unwanted pets, 'It's not what we are here for. At this time of the year kittens are being dumped everywhere”.
In recent times I have received obscene and abusive letters and phone calls from females, who will never accept my views on the need to regulate the gross overpopulation of felines in Tauranga and elsewhere.
Now that the SPCA has owned that there is a problem, and we don't want desperate owners having to go back to shooting, drowning, or dumping the animals in the countryside, is it not the responsibility of the Council and the animal control officers to get off the fence and deal with the situation. Perhaps we could fly a couple of hundred up to Auckland?
Pip Worlledge, Tauranga.