More than a lots kittens were strolling along Albert Street on Sunday night, and a regional animal shelter supervisor thinks they originated from an understood kitten mill in the area.
Matt Wimpory, who handles the Comfie Cat Shelter, said he captured wind of the kittens through social networks on Sunday and he chose to go examine the circumstance for himself.
“I immediately realized who we were dealing with, so I took a drive over there and, indeed, there are black and white, little tuxedo kittens all over the place, and I went around the backyard and there are about six or seven all-black kittens back there,” he informed OrilliaMatters.
“(This) is somebody we’ve been dealing with for the last couple of years. We’re aware that she’s been running a kitten mill — in other words, just producing them for the sake of selling off the kittens cheaply for quick money.”
Though he became aware of a couple of Good Samaritans saving a few of the kittens, Wimpory thinks most of them are still living at the Albert Street property.
He said the declared kitten mill has actually been running, to his understanding, for the previous number of years, and he raised a number of interest in the practice, consisting of the care the animals are getting and the absence of vetting associated with their sale.
“She’s just indiscriminately selling these animals to anybody without any vetting in place. They could go anywhere,” he said. “They could go to dog fighting, they can go to people feeding the reptiles. There’s a whole litany of nasty things that could happen when there’s no form of a control process when you’re adopting animals.”
As an outcome, Wimpory prepares to get in touch with the provincial federal government’s Animal Welfare Services.
“I would like to see this woman shut down. I would like to see her stop doing what she’s doing right now,” he said.
He highlighted an overpopulation issue with cats in Orillia, stating what is taking place on Albert Street is a sign of a more comprehensive problem, coming from an absence of spaying and neutering and from various animals being brought into the shelter system from different areas.
At the shelter, Wimpory said, all cats that are embraced are purified or sterilized to help fight the problem, and he motivated regional homeowners to do the very same with their own family pets.
“When we adopt animals out of here, nothing leaves that hasn’t been spayed or neutered. We stop the cycle. That’s our primary mandate here,” he said. “We’re a no-kill shelter and we just simply do not let them go if they’re not spayed or neutered.”
Due to these problems, the Comfie Cat Shelter needed to stop brand-new consumptions in recent weeks, however Wimpory said the organization would discover space for the kittens if requirement be.
“Will those animals eventually wind up here in our quarantine trailer? There’s a high likelihood of that,” he said. “We are closed to intake in general right now, but we are reserving some space for high-priority things, especially when it comes to kittens.”
