Diana Van Dusen posted a video on Facebook of two mixed Siamese kittens that she said had been found, with food, in a crate on the side of the road near Tacoma. A paper sign noted they were 3 months old and free.
Van Dusen took the kittens into her Roy-based organization, Horn Creek Rescue. The young felines’ story, she wrote in her Jan. 14 post, was proof of some people’s desperation following a big change inside a major local animal-welfare nonprofit.
Pet owners who decided they could no longer take care of their animals, whether due to finances or often some other drastic issue, had historically been charged $70 per pet to give them up to the Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County…