City Kitties in Trouble

Now that the city's contract with the SPCA has ended, some aren't sure how to deal with injured and abandoned animals in the city. We reported last week on a cat named Emery, who was abandoned in the South End with a broken leg. She got treatment after a not-for-profit called Carma stepped in to help.

But Carma says they're ill-equipped to rescue all the city's injured cats. They recently got a call about a cat that had likely been hit by a car and sustained a broken jaw and other serious wounds. The animal was euthanized, and spokesperson Stephanie Godin says the person that called in told them they had first tried the ARL, SPCA, and the city and been turned away.

Carma says they deal mainly with feral and abandoned animals, and the city needs to get a solution in place as soon as possible.