by Erin Conlon 
If you’ve noticed more stray cats around lately, it’s not necessarily a coincidence. Greenpoint Cats (and multiple other local and nearby cat rescues and individual rescuers) have been working to foster a healthy, safe environment for community cats that include spaying and neutering, regular feedings, and shelter from the elements.
“There always have been cat colonies and there always will be cat colonies…
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An alien visitor to our planet – astranger in a strane land- might very well be puzzle & confused by our hierachy of valuing the lives of our fellow living creatures —the way we breed or hunt and consume some, the way we pamper & domesticate some, and the way we revile others —and of course the hideous things we do to our fellow man/woman. My heart goes out to the suffering cat colonies in our neighborhood. However reading this article made me wonder just when was the last the journalists at the “Greepointers” wrote a similar hard-hitting article on the “displacement and disruption of the neighborhood” with regard to its HUMAN RESIDENTS, and the good people who created & maintained this beautiful neighborgood and were forced out. I fear that our sense of prioirities & values is all too often misalighed.