THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) – A grassroots effort is forming in Thomas County focused on lowering the variety of feral cats that stroll around Thomasville and the surrounding countryside.
This comes at a time when animal control services in the county have actually remained in flux this year after county leaders chose to end a relationship with the Thomasville Humane Society. These brand-new volunteers state they wish to step above the fray and make significant modification.
One of their very first endeavors came Thursday early morning at the dump in Metcalf. A trio treked into the woods to see if the trap they had actually established the night prior to had actually captured a cat.
The meowing they heard as they grew better was verification their time hadn’t been squandered.
Suzanna Winton matured in Metcalf and presently resides in Thomasville. Her mom still resides in that location and informed her about the growing feral cat population at the dump in December.
“I just couldn’t stand the idea of kittens being out in the weather like that with nothing to eat,” Winton said.
She began to leave food out for the cats, however she understood that wouldn’t suffice. To make an enduring modification, she’d require to get the cats purified or neutered.
Her research study led her to a freshly developed Facebook group, the AllSaintsCat TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), developed by Kristen Manza. Manza said she is reasonably brand-new to Thomasville and was shocked to see the variety of cats near her apartment building.
“I saw 20 or 30 cats and kittens were being born and nobody was really doing anything,” she said.
Manza began to poke around and recognized there were a variety of resources available, numerous by nonprofits in the neighborhood. She recognized all it would take is the desire to attempt.
“It’s an issue when you see cats get hurt and nobody really doing too much about it, so I took that initiative to say it’s about time,” she said.
Manza and Winton found 2 kittens in their traps at the Metcalf dump. They took both to the Thomasville Humane Society, where Operations Manager Hillery Allen was awaiting their arrival.
“The more we keep on it, the numbers stay down,” Allen said.
While no longer able to accept strays, the Thomasville Humane Society can still offer services, and they just recently received a $1,000 confidential contribution that will help money the spaying and neutering of 25 cats.
“Seeing that larger increase of the community members coming out is grand,” Allen said.
In addition to the gentle society, the volunteers are likewise dealing with other groups, consisting of the South Georgia Low Cost Spay & Neuter Clinic, and Ellie’s Potbellies Sanctuary.
“Let’s help these cats, let’s fix it,” Manza said. “Let’s put politics aside because the more times people are fighting against each other, the less cats are being helped in that time.”
Manza motivated anybody thinking about assisting their effort to connect through their Facebook Group or connect to any of the groups noted above.
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