VICKY LANGY FREE
LAPS offers free spay and neuters at least twice a year, and hosts a day when they will pick up or take any unwanted kittens or pregnant cats.The birth date was listed as 24-03-1956. They have also managed to successfully adopt out some of the cats. Tiny Kittens, a local non-profit, has been making great strides with its trap and neuter program in a colony of feral cats on a rural property in Aldergrove.
Langley has a huge stray cat issue, with an estimated 25,000 homeless cats. “But I really encourage people who are directly affected by a nuisance cat to call us,” she said. However, Nelson said they will go and trap the cat. In the case of the attacking tom, she said LAPS only has had the one complaint about it. If there is a public safety concern we would have to look at not releasing it back into the neighbourhood,” she said. If it is too feral, we may look for it to be a barn cat. We will give it a medical check up, neuter it and see if we can find it a home. “With a nuisance cat we will often lend them a trap and then take the cat in. Nelson said there are no bylaws regarding cats, unlike dogs, which are required to be licensed and can’t just roam free AS cats do. “We will determine the best course of action once we have him here at the shelter,” said Nelson.Ĭats, stray or domestic, don’t usually have an aggressive streak but Nelson wonders if this cat has an undiagnosed medical issue that is causing it to attack. LAPS executive director Jayne Nelson has since spoken with Vicky and is sending out an officer to trap the cat. “And what worries me is what if this cat attacks a kid’s face, imagine the damage it could do.” “It should be their responsibility to take action and take action immediately.” If this was a dog that bit Vicky, animal control would come here and pick up the dog,” said McKay. But then they may neuter it and re-release the thing back into our neighbourhood. “I was told I could have a trap and I could try to trap the cat and bring it to them. Langley Animal Protection Society (LAPS) is in charge of animal control in both Langleys. “I called animal control right away,” he said. McKay said the stray cat recently attacked another neighbour’s kitten.įor McKay who has lived in the neighbourhood for more than 30 years, seeing the injuries endured by Vicky was the last straw. “The cat is really friendly but has a mean streak,” he said. Since then, Blake has told his kids to stay clear of the cat. “Two weeks later, it came out of nowhere and attacked her again.” But one day it just lunged at her and clawed her out of nowhere,” said Blake. Two years ago, a four-year-old girl was bitten twice by the stray, said her dad Blake who lives a few doors down from the Jenkins.
This isn’t the first time the tom has attacked. Its diet is the many birds that frequent the neighbourhood, said Vicky. Neighbours believe the cat originally lived at a home but became stray when the people moved away and didn’t take the cat with them. “The cat was back again in the backyard this morning,” said Vicky. On Wednesday, one week after the attack, Jenkins’ entire arm was swollen and purple and blue from fingertips to elbow. But by then her arm had swollen to double its size and turned black and blue, said McKay. Vicky went to her own, doctor who did prescribe antibiotics.
Cats can carry all sort of viruses and disease in their saliva. “But they should have put her on antibiotics,” said McKay.
Neighbour Ken McKay, came running over and drove Vicky to the hospital.ĭoctors gave her a tetanus shot and sent her on her way. It was squirting out of my arm,” she said. The stray tomcat clamped down on her forearm with all its teeth. “Last Thursday, I was in the garden bending down to pick something up and he was there wrapping himself around my legs, when he just lunged at me.” “He’s been hanging around my backyard for years, and he is super friendly but has a vicious streak,” said Vicky. The injuries are so bad her arm swelled up the size of a pumpkin and she can’t use her hand at all one week later. Ninety-three year old Vicky Jenkins is now home from hospital but she is still nursing bite wounds from the nasty cat that attacked her while she was out in her garden last Thursday. He doesn’t have a name, but a stray orange and white tomcat is making a name for himself in a Langley City neighbourhood.
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