Cats
The cats are spayed or neutered and receive free inoculations and care from the local Alta Vista Animal Hospital. Purina also donates food.
In 2003, there were approximately 30 cats. However, once spaying and neutering occurred the population slowly dropped off until late in 2012 the population was down to four cats.
Read more about this topic: Canadian Parliamentary Cats
Famous quotes containing the word cats:
“Pollicle dogs and cats all must
Jellicle cats and dogs all must
Like undertakers, come to dust.
Here a little dog I pause
Heaving up my prior paws,
Pause, and sleep endlessly.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)