AR-News: (US GA) FurKids saves 17 trailer-park cats

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Others are still in need of homes

By MARK DAVIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/14/04

Cat lovers, relax. Some of the felines abandoned at a former Duluth mobile 
home park have been saved.
 

CHARLOTTE B. TEAGLE/AJC 
(ENLARGE)
About 50-60 cats and kittens were abandoned when the Chattahoochee Mobile 
Home Park shut down permanently.
 

They've been given shelter and are getting fed. Some have been neutered, 
thereby guaranteeing they'll not make creatures that become as discarded as they 
were.
 
Still, the cats of Chatta- hoochee Mobile Home Park need homes.
 
"A lot of these animals are friendly," said Samantha Shelton, founder of 
FurKids, a metro-area cat-rescue organization that has taken in some of the cats 
at the wooded tract where nearly 100 families once lived. Seventeen "scared" 
cats have been saved, she said.
 
The cats — some abandoned pets, others feral animals that lived out of trash 
cans and unwatched outdoor food bowls — lived relatively quiet lives at the 
park, located off Buford Highway about two miles north of downtown Duluth.

But the humans on whom they relied began an exodus about six months ago after 
the Duluth City Council rezoned the 99.7-acre tract containing the park and 
annexed it into the city. A developer proposes building more than 300 homes on 
the parcel and two smaller sites.
 
The council's vote meant the trailers had to go. Residents had until March 1 
to vacate.



full story:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/0304/15cats.html 
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