An East Columbus cat colony has managed to divide the entire community this week. The cat controversy erupted after Tuesday’s city council meeting which featured eight residents from the Georgetown subdivision led by Carlton Brantley. Speaking up for one of his neighbors during the public agenda Brantley used colorful language councilors are not accustomed to hearing from concerned citizens.
“They sh***g and pi***g all in his yard there and tearing the lawn up there and plus they all on his car. In this area here these cars in our area there these 40, 50, 60, 70, 80-thousand-dollar cars there this is Georgetown here….we can’t use no cats here,” Brantley said in part. He reported a few neighbors ignored instructions from Paws not to feed the cats earlier this year and dared the city to do something about it.
At the behest of Councilwoman Toyia Tucker who represents the subdivision and other officials who first responded to the cat crisis in May, the city’s compliance officer fired off a letter to Paws giving the city run animal shelter 10 days to relocate the cats. When the letter which cited a city ordinance was made public on social media members of the community responded with graphic language of their own. “Leave the f*n cats alone,” James Cushing posted. Edward DuBose chimed in “Council needs to get a life. Mfs worried about cats rather than the real problems.”…