Many people love cats, but maybe there can be too much of a good thing.
In Charlotte, there aren’t specific regulations about maintaining stray cats, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control Communications and Outreach Manager Melissa Knicely.
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Some cats are “community cats” meaning they are known and even loved in the area they live in, and likely engage with people. The department offers a Community Cat Program for cats that cannot be taken by the shelter. Cats are given medical care and then released back.
“Community cats tend to be that cat that roams the neighborhood, and everybody feeds, but nobody claims to own it, and they’re typically friendly, and typically they don’t get as many complaints, because it’s everybody pitching in,” Knicely said. “Everybody knows that cat, and heaven forbid, if you try to take that cat, people would be like ‘That’s George, he comes to our house on Thursdays.’”…