Officials are concerned there are more cats needing help

It’s odd that no kittens were among the 20 cats dropped off, officials said

20 cats infested with fleas, lice, parasites left at shelter

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Angels for Animals’s co-founder Diane Less believes there are more cats wherever the 20 dumped at the shelter earlier this week came from.

The cats were infested with fleas, lice and parasites and range in age from 8 months to 6 years. None of the 14 black and six gray cats was spayed or neutered, and two were pregnant. They were left in Angels’ drop-off area late Wednesday night.

Less said one person called in, believing they knew where the cats came from. She’s concerned there may be more cats in need of medical care.

Kim Woodburn, humane officer at Animal Charity, said she visited the house where the caller believes the cats came from and found no connection. The man who lives there feeds stray cats, but doesn’t keep them in his home, she said.

If the person who abandoned the cats at Angels can be identified, Woodburn wants to conduct a welfare check at their home.

Less believes that wherever the cats came from, there are more. It’s odd, she said, to have that many unaltered cats and have no kittens — particularly because this is the time of year when cats are having litters.

She believes it’s for one of three reasons.

The cats are diseased, and the kittens are either stillborn or die very young. Or, the cats are eating the kittens, although Less doubts that’s the case as the cats weren’t starving when they were brought in.

“It’s more likely they’ve still got them,” Less said of the kittens and the people who abandoned the cats.

Anyone with information should call Less at Angels, 330-549-1111.

Read more in Saturday’s Vindicator.