Editor:
This letter is really addressed to the City of Anderson, and for that matter, to all of Shasta County.
Get behind and show support for Joan Neptune. She is just one person fighting for a righteous cause. I know there are many who do what she does, so help her help each other. Joan deserves the keys to the city, not a littering citation. Whether or not you like cats, either way, Joan is helping by lowering the numbers of feral cats left alone to reproduce by irresponsible people who are the real problem. They are the ones who cause the great numbers of unwanted cats.
Joan feeds the cats so as to keep them healthy. That gives her a way to trap the animals, thus spaying and neutering and medicating any sick or injured cats, all on her own dime.
Sickly, weak and inbred cats spread disease.
What Joan does is commendable, fixing and feeding feral cats is the solution to lowering the feral cat population.
Our Siskiyou County group, Purr Angels, has spayed and neutered 1,800 feral cats and given them their first set of shots - rabies vaccinations - since April 2006.
Before then, it was just a few caring people like Joan Neptune.
Our community support, matching fund programs and many fund raisers. Many many volunteers is the marked difference. Once a month, we have two veterinarians and veterinary technicians who donate their services for free. We pay for the vaccinations.
Our volunteers educate cat owners and trap cats for people who feed them.
It's making a difference. Our local cat colonies are getting smaller as the reproduction process stops.
So get out and help Joan Neptune.
Peggy Grace, a former Happy Valley resident now living in Siskiyou County.
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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