The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society and Alley Cats of L-A have started capturing, spaying and neutering and then releasing the cats that live around Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp.’s Auburn transfer station.
The groups have fixed four cats so far and plan to spay and neuter more as the animals are caught.
The cats, which are cared for by transfer station worker Karl Dostie, were featured in the Sun Journal in February. At the time, about seven cats were living in the area and Dostie was feeding them a box of canned food and a large bag of dry cat food every week – mostly paid with his own money.
Since the story appeared, Dostie has received donations of food and money to help the cats.
“It’s been quite the outpouring of support,” he said.
In fact, Dostie received so many donations that he’s sent the surplus to the local animal shelter.
Because Dostie was concerned the cats would keep breeding until the population was out of control, the humane society and Alley Cats of L-A, a group dedicated to helping feral cats, has helped him spay and neuter the animals. Since they’re feral, the cats are returned to the transfer station, where they’ve made a home.
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