PETA, the animal rights activist group, is not real happy the the town of WEIRTON for their alleged lackidaisical approach to the feral cat population. Feral cats are the ones that are wild cats that roam the area and usually can not be approached. In an e-mail sent Monday to Hancock County Administrator Chuck Svokas, Teresa Chagrin, animal care and control specialist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, criticized the county animal shelter for ceasing to accept trapped cats. Mayor Mark Harris, who also has served as Weirton's animal control officer since July, said the shelter informed officials in mid-October it could no longer accept feral cats trapped by the city. The mayor was not sure of the total number of cats trapped in the city prior to mid-October, but he said it wasn't uncommon for him to take as many as 10 to the shelter in a single week.
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