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City considers cat conundrum

In a quiet Coeur d’Alene neighborhood in a house with a yard, a garden and flower beds, birdsong pipes from the shade trees that line the street like a boulevard where Howard Kuhns considers cats.

Kuhns, willow lean with an easy laugh, said cats defecate in his flower beds and the garden where his wife works.

They aren’t his cats.

He doesn’t know who keeps the four or five cats that frequent his yard, but their feces makes unpleasant an otherwise peaceful experience like gardening.

“They poop in the flower bed, they poop in the garden,” he said. “My wife goes out to dig in the flower bed and it stinks.”

It’s not something neighborhood dogs do, nor do other pets that he can think of, and if they did, the city has an animal control division to deal with it. But the city’s animal control officers don’t take cats/Ralph Bartholdt, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Is there anything the city of Coeur d'Alene can do to address the issue of straying cats?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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