Inky Inky is a beautiful, black, 7-month-old,...

Inky

Inky is a beautiful, black, 7-month-old, neutered male that was

rescued in Corona Del Mar by concerned neighbors. Inky was well cared

for by senior citizens who had not known that there was help

available. The Community Animal Network provided the seniors with the

tools they needed to trap Inky’s mom and to save her latest litter of

kittens.

For the past eight years, Inky’s mom has been living in the

neighborhood of Harbor View Hills with kittens. The kittens will be

available soon, and the 8-year-old feral mother cat has been spayed,

vaccinated and released back to her family yard. She will be cared

for and fed by the good citizens.

Inky is a very fortunate kitty to have the opportunity to get a

home. Without his caregivers having handled him from an early age, he

would not have had the opportunity to be rescued and placed into a

home. Thanks to Newport Beach resident Kristy Neubo, Inky will soon

get accustomed to all household noises and be less insecure in an

active home.

“More people need to give feral cats a chance,” Neubo said. “There

is nothing more rewarding than taking a kitty that was so terrified

and in a few weeks they hug you and follow you around purring.”

All shelters, including “no-kill shelters,” kill feral cats.

“Shelters do not have the manpower, knowledge or resources to tame

these terrified kitties,” Neubo said.

It is the right thing to do to trap and spay neighborhood feral

cats to end the senseless killing of unwanted cats. Feral kittens

need to be trapped early and tamed to pet quality. It is their only

chance. This is the right solution for all people and animals living

in the neighborhood.

The Community Animal Network has traps to loan, and the Orange

County SPCA has a feral cat spay/neuter voucher program that makes it

easy for the public to participate without a cost to them. The United

States has a terrible feral cat problem that could be easily

controlled if people within each neighborhood would band together and

take action using the many resources available.

Orange County spends more money killing and disposing of the

animals’ bodies than it would costs to spay and neuter them. Please

help stop senseless killing by trapping stray cats and getting them

spayed or neutered.

We are already getting calls about pregnant cats and kittens in

people yards. Spaying and neutering will save so many lives!

The amount of manpower and dollars needed to rescue animals is

disproportionate to the available donated funds and volunteers. You

can help by sending your donation to Community Animal Network “Spay A

Stray” program.

The Community Animal Network is a community-supported animal

organization linking people and pets through community action. See

other animals available for adoption at https://www.animalnetwork.org,

or stop by Russo’s pet store at Fashion Island between noon and 4

p.m. on weekends. For information, call (949) 759-3646 or write to

the Community Animal Network at P.O. Box 8662, Newport Beach, CA

92658.