A colony of feral cats trapped inside an abandoned day care have been hauntingly meowing out for help – but activists claim they’ve been told the felines have already been evacuated.
A squad of volunteer rescuers has corralled three of the felines during two separate moments they were allowed access into the shuttered childcare center at the Sheepshead Bay New York City Housing Authority complex’s childcare center.
The rescues came after NYCHA insisted there were no kitties locked inside the closed center, activists said.
“Basically, they don’t care about the cats,” said Olga Hudyno, who has worked as a trap-and-release rescuer for five years under her organization Midwood Cats. “They just wouldn’t open the doors, they wouldn’t do it for us. Their main idea is that, ‘there are no cats inside.’ We saw them. We heard them.”
The back-and-forth began on July 25, when a regular cat feeder noticed that the center’s gated windows had been tightened and holes at the base of the building had been filled to stop the felines from slipping in and out.
