By KATIE WATTS / Petaluma Towns Correspondent
“We have this segment of society that doesn’t have a voice,” says Jeff Charter, executive director of the new nonprofit Petaluma Animal Services Foundation. “Animals can’t advocate for their position. They sit in a kennel or a cage and wait for someone to make a decision on whether they live or die.
“Often,” he says with a smile, “we can affect those decisions in a positive way.”
In August, the foundation took over operation of the Petaluma Animal Shelter from the City of Petaluma. One of its newest programs offers that positive decision for feral cats.
The Humane Society of the United States explains “feral cats are the offspring of lost or abandoned pet cats or other feral cats who are not spayed or neutered. Stray cats are accustomed to contact with people and are tame, but feral cats are not accustomed to contact with people and are typically too fearful and wild to be handled. Feral cats typically live in a colony—a group of related cats.”
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