Now there are seven left, and they have all been fixed. Judd Weekly works with local residents to hunt, spay, neuter, and rehabilitate cats. In Port Orford, a group of cats have been living near Ray’s grocery store for years. In fact, not every town clears cat colonies. It’s more of an organic embrace than baiting, spaying, neutering, and moving. There is no concerted effort to close all jetty colonies. Let’s give them real homes, real families,'” Truffer said. Then in the new age, they’re like, ‘No, let’s fix them. “Some old school students think it’s fine to have cats roaming loose. Trover thinks the community has moved on from the weird idea that waterfronts are a good place for cats because they are close to fish. She is happy to remove the colony of stray cats. But these traits often mean that they don’t deal kindly with home life.Īmanda Trover runs the Wild Rivers Animal Rescue in Gold Beach.
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They have learned how to hunt in the wild. “They broke their asses and did what should have been done a long time ago.” If they were socializing, they would get them into the homes,” Trover said of the people who cleared their cat homes. “They worked really hard to get all the cats out, adopt them, fix them up, and put them in pens. The shelter deals with stray cats in the area. “It was a bad kind of political mishap that happened,” said Amanda Trover, director of Wild Rivers Animal Rescue in Gold Beach. But Schindler and other neighbors saw enough. “He labels this north pier as a place where I don’t know what you want to call it, it’s no-man’s land,” he said.īo Shindler and his granddaughter overlook the pier where the Gold Beach cats used to live.ĭomestic cat lovers note peeling paint and mold. Schindler said the whole place had become a nuisance. He also accidentally killed three cats on three separate occasions because they were seeking warmth under the hood of his car when the engine started. He said the problems have evolved over the years. “I turned on the light and went to get to the wood and the cat,” he said, “and these little cats were sleeping on the wood.” “You scared the living daylight out of them and when they jumped, you scared the living daylight out of me.” The cat food left by the locals attracted mice and other wildlife.īo Shindler lives up the hill from Gold Beach Colony and said he initially enjoyed cats, much like the time he found kittens in his log cabin.
Some went into homes, others to shops or barns, and some were taken to an animal sanctuary in Florence.īut over time the paint on small homes peeled off and the wood rotted. All were sterilized, castrated, vaccinated, and dewormed. These are some of the last cats collected from the Gold Beach Pier this spring.
“They had churches and groceries and hotels and all sorts of things,” Hodge said. Hodge remembers another colony, about 30 miles offshore on Gold Beach’s North Pier, that came complete with a row of little painted houses built by locals decades ago. There are colonies in communities up and down the West Coast.īut now, a number of coastal cities in Oregon, including Brookings, have taken steps to remove cat colonies Animal lovers say they are inhuman and annoying. For years, dock cats have been a part of coastal culture, dating back to the days when local leaders didn’t mind loitering in the gorge over fish bits left by fishermen, French fries thrown out by tourists or even left-over cat food for well-intentioned animal lovers.
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