Crate of cats left outside Florida animal shelter

FLORIDA -- Fifteen cats were left outside a Nassau County Animal Services building overnight on Friday, services said.

Temperatures dropped as low as 29 degrees on that night, but all of the cats made it.

Timothy Maguire, shelter manager, said that he usually checks the front door to make sure no one has left anything tied up or in a cage out front. Saturday morning he found 15 cats, a half dozen of them pregnant, meowing and locked in a cage.

 

The cats, according to Maguire, were left without any identification. Animal services' surveillance was able to take a picture of a car seen leaving.

Maguire said they'll send the photo over to their IT and through photo enhancement they'll get the tag number and hopefully be able to get some answers. Meanwhile, the shelter has a bit of a population boom on their hands.

"They're all really nice cats," Maguire said, "we'll get them vaccinated and start adopting them out." He said the cats will be adoptable in a week.

(WTSP - Feb 15, 2015)