Gilroy
– Margaret Baker wanted to do the right thing. When the Gilroy
woman found three newborn kittens crawling on their stomachs
outside Nob Hill Foods in Gilroy, she scooped them up and started
making phone calls.
Gilroy – Margaret Baker wanted to do the right thing. When the Gilroy woman found three newborn kittens crawling on their stomachs outside Nob Hill Foods in Gilroy, she scooped them up and started making phone calls.
Seventeen hours later, after being bounced from one agency to another, she finally left the kittens on a City Hall secretary’s desk, disgusted by what she called “the run-around.”
“I don’t even like cats,” she said, “but this was ridiculous. I told the assistant, ‘They’re yours now, because no one else is going to take them.'”
The kittens quickly found a home after city staff issued a notice: City employee Lisa Velasco is keeping and another family took the third. Though the kittens’ story has a happy ending, administrative secretary Karen Pogue cautioned that residents really shouldn’t bring kittens to City Hall.
“This isn’t the way to handle our strays,” said Pogue. “It happened to work out this time, but we don’t want people doing this.”
Baker said after being shuttled from shelters to police, to shelters, to police, she didn’t know what else to do.
