New Canaan Animal Control soon will have two kittens to adopt out, after taking the animals from a feral mother that they will have spayed, microchipped, ear-notched and vaccinated for rabies prior to returning her to the Beech Road area where they found her.
The kittens are three months or younger, Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said.
“They’re very young and very adoptable—they can be picked up and held,” Kleinschmitt said.
Animal Control generally doesn’t mobilize in cases of feral cats “but it seems like there are some issues around town.”
“There are a whole lot of colonies in town and if we didn’t take the kittens and get her spayed, we could have another colony over there,” Kleinschmitt said.
The largest such colony in New Canaan is on Summer Street near Lakeview Avenue, she said. The unit gets about 10 to 12 calls on those cats per year, she said.
Here’s where Beech Road is: