Operation Catsnip targets wild cats

Kathy Lanning’s greenhouse is home to more than just plants. It’s a temporary stronghold where she is keeping eight free-roaming cats until she can successfully capture them in humane traps and have them spayed or neutered. “I finally got them trapped in my greenhouse and I shut the door on them, so they’re in there wrecking everything. I came up here to see what I could do,” Lanning said Thursday, standing in the reception area of Kootenai Humane Society. “They said if I trapped them I could bring them in and get them fixed. They can live out there, it’s a large acreage, but I need them to not multiply.” Lanning said her St. Maries property and the neighboring properties have at least 30 free-roaming felines. The area where she lives is a hotspot for people to leave unwanted kittens. “I know somebody dumped them,” she said. “They were real small when I first started seeing them and I know a couple of them got killed.” Lanning said she has been working for about six months on containing the population/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

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