Letters to the Editor -
Dear Editor,
I am a resident of Ramea and have been for all my life and I am an animal lover.
Over the past four or five years, we have been finding baby kittens outside on their own, just running stray. A lot of these kittens have been captured and have very loving homes. Homes down the coast to Francois, Grey River and even Stephenville.
The last litter was discovered just before Christmas, four little baby kittens. I know this because for some reason they all seem to appear in the area of the island where I live. Two of the four have been captured and now have very good homes. The other two kittens were less fortunate and are still running stray.
Being the animal lover that I am, I went to the store and bought cat food and now feed them on a regular basis. My neighbor does the same. They have also adopted one of these stray kittens, a couple of years ago and of course, they keep coming back.
One might say that was a mistake, but I don't think so. That was the least I could do. The problem is, obviously these cats were brought to our island by someone.
My opinion is that someone should not have had a cat or cats in the first place. If they are going to let a mother cat have a litter of kittens outside and then they become the responsibility of the townspeople. Can you just imagine how over populated our island would be by now if it weren't for those good people who now have them as pets?
As a matter of fact, my neighbour caught two last winter and now these two belong to my mother. Both were females and now they are both spayed, which is the right thing to do. If only the person responsible for this situation had taken the time to have their cat/cats spayed or neutered in the first place we wouldn't have this problem.
The SPCA, RCMP and the Town of Ramea have all been notified of this situation but it seems no one can help.
It is now winter again and of course we get temperatures that are below normal and it is way too cold for these little animals to be just left outside on their own. You see this on the news a lot, about people leaving animals outside in these temperatures and if caught doing so, any individual can be charged and I think rightfully so.
My purpose to writing this letter is to get attention - attention enough to make the individual responsible for this act of animal cruelty to please stop. Get your animals spayed or neutered. This, of course, will cut down the population of all these stray animals.
Animal lover,
Bernadette A-Kendall
Ramea
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