The Napa Police Department says the van was taken on February 26 and discovered March 2 in Napa. No arrests have actually been made.
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Meanwhile, ABC7 obtained monitoring video that reveals the minute somebody removed with the van while the feral cats were within.
Margo Cassidy, President of Whiskers, Tails and Ferals in Napa, said somebody biked as much as their van and got into it, removing with it.
“We are so ecstatic and so elated that we have the cats back,” Cassidy said. “They’re living lives. They’re living beings. Who could care less about the van? It was everything about the cats.”
The organization saves cats and dogs from high-kill shelters and rehabilitations feral cats.
“(The cats) were caught and prepared to go to the center the following day,” Cassidy said. “That’s normally how T & R groups do it. You trap them. You leave them in your car and you take them early in the early morning due to the fact that often you do not get done up until midnight, often 2 o’clock in the early morning.”
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The group at Whiskers, Tails and Ferals is thanking everybody who assisted discover the taken cats.
Someone even pitched in with a $5,000 benefit to help discover them.
There’s a possibility one cat might be embraced out, Cassidy said. That’s since that cat gets along.
But they are feral cats and the strategy is for them to be required to the center, made sterile and sterilized, rehabbed and returned to where they originated from.
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