Domestic Cat (Felis catus)

19 September 2015: Katrina aka Kati was a cat that Cooper Creek and Avondale Park rendered onto the neighborhood as people periodically come to the park and leave (dare we say dump or abandon) their few-months old kittens on the assumption that somehow they will live and/or someone will take them in and care for them and they''ll live happily ever after. This is the alternative folks reason to taking them to the city's Animal Shelter where they will be given a few days or some limited amount of time and if they are not adopted by then, they will be and are euthanized. People don't want to own up to making that decision on the belief that they will not be adopted and thereby be euthanized. It's a choice they'd rather not make. In other words, it's a complicated moral or ethical issue. All Domestic Cats (Felis catus) as we know retain much of the feral or wild in them and especially when it comes to wildlife. Here in the area of Avondale Park and Cooper Creek, the greenbelt, Domestic Cats have also become prey occasionally to larger carnivores (coyotes, bobcats, owls),and simply disappear though sometimes some part of their remains are left making people wonder more precisely what it was that happened to them. In the case of this Domestic Cat she arrived three days after Katrina hit the Louisiana and Texas coasts (September 5, 2005) with a twin brother who had six toes on his two front feet and who's since died due to Leukemia (after fighting other male feral cats on the creek who passed the disease to him), so said the veterinarian. This one, she's a survivor (and a great politician). Domestic Cats are found throughout Human history the world round since the time of the most ancient of civilizations. Domestic Cats wouldn't exist without Human intervention. Collectively speaking, they're our creation for better or worse. Domestic Cats are authentic residents of the Western Hemisphere and indeed the World.