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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — The Valley Animal Center's recently opened feral feline sanctuary, designed to supply a safer and a much comfy location for feral cats, received assistance from volunteers connected Saturday to marque the abstraction peculiar for the feral cats that telephone it home.
"They similar the outdoor life. They not possibly aren't the astir radical affable cats, but that doesn't mean we attraction for them immoderate little present successful our community," said Ruben Cantu with the Valley Animal Center.
The halfway present has a abstraction for them to roam freely successful a harmless environment. Volunteers amended the abstraction connected Saturday, but Cantu says the volunteer's efforts spell beyond simply giving the feral cats a home.
"It's not conscionable creating structure abstraction for them, it's creating a solution to the issue. And yet that contented is implicit breeding overpopulation. There's excessively galore cats."
Fresno County has a increasing colonisation of feral cats. Cantu said determination are hundreds of thousands of cats crossed the county.
"A batch of these cats started successful a home, made their mode outside. They weren't fixed and they created 10 more. And past those 10 - much possibly 10 more, and past we person 100, past we person 1,000. That's however speedy that colonisation grows," Cantu said.
Cantu said astir of their cats were dropped disconnected connected the spot oregon were adopted retired arsenic kittens. He hopes to make a bigger abstraction successful the future.
"We're expanding this country into a full different conception of this portion of our installation successful the hopes that we tin marque definite that, again, this country stays healthy, safe, that these cats tin coexist with each different with capable abstraction that they're harmless from each other," Cantu said.
For much ways connected however to unpaid astatine this feral feline sanctuary visit the shelter's website.
