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660 cats per neighborhood: Who cares for Baltimore’s feral felines?

More than 86,000 feral cats roam the streets of Baltimore

Amy Harbison, of the Park Heights Animal Welfare Group, puts out can food at one of the feral-cat feeding sites the group takes care of every week. The volunteers feed some of the more than 80,000 feral cats in the city. (Kenneth K. Lam/Staff)
Amy Harbison, of the Park Heights Animal Welfare Group, puts out can food at one of the feral-cat feeding sites the group takes care of every week. The volunteers feed some of the more than 80,000 feral cats in the city. (Kenneth K. Lam/Staff)
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The volunteers climb out of their station wagon, cat food in hand, and the feline faces appear in the undergrowth around the boarded-up house — a black-and-white they call Tuxie, a white female known as Marshmallow, the tabbies Thing 1 and Thing 2. The cats belong to a colony of about 20 that live behind […]

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