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Volunteer urges Depot Bay to convene work session on community cat overpopulation
Summary
A longtime volunteer with Central Coast Humane Society outlined a countywide community-cat overpopulation problem and asked Depot Bay council to schedule a focused work session to consider coordinated responses, including public education and ordinance changes.
Lisa Spence Bennett, a former volunteer with Central Coast Humane Society, told the Depot Bay City Council she wants a formal work session to address a growing population of unowned "community cats" and to present policies other communities have used to reduce abandonment and animal suffering. "With this assistance, we trapped and neutered over 800 cats in Lincoln County in 02/2024," Bennett said, adding that CCHS has performed trap-neuter-return on more than 1,500 community cats over three years.
Bennett told the council that CCHS began this year with a backlog of…
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