- November 18, 2024
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A local kitty advocate has asked Palm Coast City Council candidates about their views on beginning a city trap-neuter-return program — which Palm Coast has, so far, declined to do — and created a Facebook page to post their replies.
“It’s an attempt to inform the council and educate the public about where the candidates stand on TNR,” said Elizabeth Robinson, head of Community Cats of Palm Coast. “We’re going to continue to inform the voters in the primary — and, if necessary, the general — election. The purpose is to make sure voters who support TNR have this information as early as possible.”
Robinson said the effort, run by a grassroots group of cat supporters, will probably expand into distributing emails and fliers, like printouts she handed out Saturday at a cat adoption event hosted by SAFFARI rescue.
The printouts listed statements on TNRW from City Council candidates Ann Marie Shaffer, Heidi Shipley, Joel Rosen, Steven Nobile and Norman Weiskopf. Others, Robinson said, had not yet replied.
Robinson said the feral cat issue has caused palpable stress on the community.
“The situation is out of control and it has been for a long time, and I think that causes unhappiness on all sides,” she said. “I don’t know of one neighborhood where there’s not friction on this issue. It’s what happens when things get out of control. It doesn’t bring out the best in a community.”
To view the Vote TNR page, visit facebook.com/VoteTNR.
