At Adoptions for Love, a cat rescue currently sheltering 80 felines in the more upscale neighborhood of Playa, the number of people looking to adopt has plunged.
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Orlando Matos,
NBC news,
7 Oct. 2026
Also, wildlife and nuisance-animal trappers can be hired to humanely trap and relocate the felines.
Probably the most infamous was Ted Bundy, who as a child in the early 1970s decapitated dogs and staked cats to trees.
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Diana Urban,
Hartford Courant,
27 Oct. 2026
An Eagle man charged with animal cruelty in the shooting deaths of two caged cats was ordered to serve a total of 14 days in jail after accepting a plea deal in August, according to court records.
Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.
Officials now are seeing more house cats abandoned on the streets as the price of pet food and veterinary care has skyrocketed since the pandemic, according to Sarai Rivera, founder of My Bella TNR cat rescue in Hartford.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2026
But the feral ones steer clear of humans, while the former house cats have roughly 10,000 students to spread their affection.
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