Pet surrenders surge during hard times — but there is a right way and a wrong way

Pet surrenders surge during hard times — but there is a right way and a wrong way

The black Kia rolled up shortly before midnight to Fat Cat Rescue, a 7-acre haven for feral cats in Wadsworth that readers might remember me visiting in the summer of 2023.It certainly was not summer now, but late January and bitterly cold.A couple got out of the car. You see them on security camera footage, jiggling locked door handles. They notice the doggie door, remove a cat from the car, push it through the door, then speed off.Being a cat,…

Pet surrender surges during hard economic times — but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.

The black Kia rolled up shortly before midnight to Fat Cat Rescue, a 7-acre haven for feral cats in Wadsworth that readers might remember visiting in the summer of 2023. It certainly was not summer now, but late January and bitterly cold. A couple got out of the car. You see them on security camera footage, jiggling locked door handles. They notice the doggie door., remove a cat from the car, push it through the door, then speed off. Being a cat…