Residents in one South Los Angeles ZIP code -- 90037 -- are dealing with a feral cat population that some estimates place at 12,000. The cats can been seen roaming through the neighborhood.
"I can hear them right outside my window when they're fighting and mating," said Cydney Fellows, a retired high-rise window washer who lives near Vermont Avenue and 22nd Street.
Officials say that the city's Animal Services Department is stretched too thin to trap any cats and that when residents take them into city shelters, many are euthanized.
But one nonprofit group is hoping to decrease the number that are killed. And even more ambitiously, the Stray Cat Alliance hopes to trap and neuter at least 7,000 cats within this roughly two-square-mile area, using a grant from a private company.
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Photo: Stray Cat Alliance founder Christi Metropole with some feline friends. Credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times
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