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population has exploded in Orange County. <br />This has left the burden of managing these colonies up to independent trappers <br />who spend hours after working their full-time jobs trapping. They also spend <br />their own money to fix, vaccinate and vet these cats. <br />Prior to COVID, OCAC had a RTF (return to field) program for feral and <br />community cats. It was paid for and sponsored by Stray Cat Alliance. OCAC <br />shut it down. Last year another another organization offered to sponsor and pay <br />for a RTF program if it could be hosted at OCAC. OCAC turned it down. <br />OCAC has continually told people who have brought in found, unfixed cats, to <br />return them to where they were found, UNFIXED. <br />When OCAC has taken in kittens, they immediately put them on the Euthanasia <br />list and guilt rescues to take them in causing rescues to be so overwhelmed and <br />running out of funds to care for all these cats. <br />OCAC fosters who step up to foster these euth-listed kittens, are given no <br />supplies to care for them. When they take in bottle babies, they are told they <br />will take back and fix once eating on their own and weighing 2 pounds. Now <br />they are being required to hold for 3 months before the shelter will take back. <br />This doesn't allow these fosters to take in more high risk kittens. <br />In addition, anyone going to the shelter to pick up kittens to foster or return <br />kittens for vet checks, are required to sit inside their cars and sometimes wait an <br />hour for the kittens to be picked up and returned to them — many times seeing <br />the shelter worker pull up in their car to come in to do that job. No one seems to <br />be on site working at the shelter yet the budget shows they are still being paid. <br />I can only speak to the treatment or lack of treatment for the cat community. I <br />have heard just as horrid stories for the dogs. <br />With 17 cities tax dollars going to this beautiful $35 million facility, why has their <br />been no audit of their practices? How can they claim to be operating this way <br />do to Covid when most business has fully resumed business as usual? <br />