pet connection

We’ve been vacationing in the Cayman Islands since 1993 (not nonstop, unfortunately) and have had our share of encounters with friendly “community” cats there, including inviting one into our timeshare for a kitty fix one visit. So I was delighted to see this news report (story and photo by Anna Wootton) that two “cat cafes” have opened on the island in combination with a TNR program.

…the Department of Agriculture has joined with the [Cayman Islands] Humane Society to trap, spay and neuter feral cats and then return them to their original locations. Ones that are younger and seem easy to tame will be kept at the shelter and put up for adoption.

The cat cafes are feeding stations/humane traps as far as I can tell from this somewhat disjointed article. The first two have been set up at Morritt’s Tortuga Club, which is where we stay, and at the Lighthouse Restaurant, one of our favorite places to eat. (The cats apparently have similar, expensive, dining tastes.)

…once an animal is trapped, staff members on the premises alert the Humane Society who then collect the animal and take it to the Society’s spay/neuter clinic.

The article does repeat the misinformation about the number of kittens/puppies an unaltered animal produces, debunked here.

I’m looking forward to checking these out the next time we visit, which I hope will be soon.

Obligatory Cavalier blogging: I had thrown the girls’ beds into the washing machine the other day and hadn’t pulled them out of the dryer yet. Jerry walked into the bedroom and found Bella asleep inside a duffle bag that was on the floor. I really must insist that he carry a camera with him at all times so we can get photos of these things.

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