![]() “It’s a situation that is absolutely out of control,” Dunn said of the increasing cat population in Oakland. Intake of cats at the city-run shelter goes up each year, Dunn said. Across Interstate 880, at the Martin Luther King Regional Shoreline Park, is where the East Bay Regional Park District was shooting stray cats in 2020, causing community outrage. The area is also home to hundreds of stray cats. Feral Change of Oakland is doing the same work on Hegenberger near the Denny’s and the city’s safe RV site to stabilize that population. OAS is working with Alameda-based Island Cat Resource and Adoption, which has trapped and spayed or neutered about 20 cats and removed two litters of kittens from the Coliseum site, Dunn said. Most adult feral cats are not socialized and therefore are not adaptable to being a family pet, Dunn said, and removing an entire colony creates a vacuum effect opening up the territory for another colony to move in. He said workers are going to better secure dumpsters.Īnn Dunn, director of Oakland Animal Services, estimates the cat population to be 40 to 50 and said “if you see that many, there are probably more.” Another feline colony across a canal from the Coliseum on Hegenberger Drive has easily another 100 cats, Dunn said.Ĭontrolling the population is complex. Discarded food from event attendees has kept the cat population well fed, said Gardner. ![]() ![]() Events returned last year, along with the stadium’s reopening to baseball fans. ![]() The Coliseum’s parking lots were used as a mass testing COVID-19 testing site but the arena and stadium sat quiet for months when events and games were canceled and the MLB season shortened due to the pandemic. ![]() Once a bustling complex with three professional sports teams, the Oakland A’s remain the only anchor tenant after the Warriors moved to San Francisco and the Raiders to Las Vegas. The kittens, who are bold and “don’t know any better,” according to Gardner, have been spotted inside the Oakland Arena and baseball stadium on the outfield turf. ![]()
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