Feeding time for some of the 110 cats
abandoned by flood victims.
Patcharapol Panrak
The Royal Thai Navy is looking for the owners of more
than 100 cats left by flood victims at its animal shelter, many of which
are now sick and dying.
A volunteer group called “A Call to Animal Life”
dropped the 110 felines at the Air and Coastal Defense Command’s Dogs
and Cats Care Center in Sattahip last month by victims displaced by
flooding in Bangkok.
Outbreaks of deadly feline cancer and skin diseases
are now ravaging the cat population, with many of the felines already
having died. Navy officials are calling on the volunteer group or former
flood evacuees to claim the animals.
Wanna Somroppdee, one of the volunteers caring for
the animals, said the shelter is unable to care for the cats long-term
and that disease is spreading.
Navy spokesman Vice Adm. Narit Pichitlothorn said the
shelter has now been closed to new arrivals and has offered to move all
the remaining felines back to Bangkok via truck.
