Summertime is when the cat population typically grows and this year has been especially overwhelming.
"We're getting warm weather for longer. We get these weirdly hot Februarys and the cats start having kittens," Brazinski said."Anyone who has found a stray lately knows when you call the shelters all of us have to say we're full."During the summer months, Animal Care Centers of NYC typically takes in about 1,000 cats. However, for two weeks this summer, ACC deliberately slowed its cat intake, capping it at 300.
Officials say it's now getting better, but they'd like to see more government funding and private donations for smaller organizations, and more incentives for adopters, like Edith Taylor, a writer for CBS New York who already has two cats, but took in this third stray she named Birdie. "I'm glad I did it. Otherwise, who knows where the cat would be? My co-worker said she kept trying to run into traffic. If we would have left her, she might've been dead," Taylor said.There is no official tally of the city's stray and feral cats, but many organizations estimate it's as high as 1 million.
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