Seattle woman helping feral cats get spayed
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Pamela Brumell says she uses anything stinky, usually tuna and oil, to lure feral cats.
SEATTLE - Feral, or abandoned cats that are not spayed or neutered, can have kittens at a dizzying rate. The Humane Society estimates they are responsible for 147 million kittens a year in the United States.
That’s why one Seattle woman has made it her personal mission to humanely trap them, get them spayed or neutered, and then release them back to where she found them to live the rest of their days without reproducing.
Pam Brumell traps up to 40 or so cats a week and brings them to clinics
to be spayed or neutered. She says she uses anything stinky, usually
tuna and oil, to lure feral cats.
"A feral cat
is an abandoned, unsocialized cat,” Brumell said. “It's not like you're
going to pick it up and it’s going to go purr purr and yes you can take
it home. Unfortunately a human did this to them, they allowed them to
either be abandoned or get lost, stray, unaltered, which therein lies,
makes feral kittens." Nine years ago, Brumell created
Feral Cat Assistance and Trapping, or FCAT for short. Several days a
week, she goes to neighborhoods being overtaken by wild and abandoned
cats, traps them, and takes them to free spay/neuter clinics.