Parks and Recreation crews are cracking down after finding more than 30 unauthorized cat feeding stations and shelters in a wooded area along Turtle Creek.
Dallas Park and Recreation Board member Rudy Karimi wrote in a post on social media that parks officials had been monitoring the situation over the past year and recently sought to address the issue after finding more than 30 boxes and feeding areas in the woods “along with concerns about fleas, bacteria, fecal matter, rotting food, and at least one deceased cat.”
“Feeding stations like this can also attract coyotes and other wildlife that should not be encouraged in parks within the urban core,” the post continued. “Regardless of people’s views on cat colony management, public parkland is simply not the appropriate place for feeding stations or unmanaged shelters.”…