Feral Siamese cat colony moves in behind woman's house in Wonderwood

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Wonderwood woman now has a colony of feral Siamese cats behind her house after she says her neighbor’s family used large dogs to chase them out of his yard.

“I heard the dogs in the backyard running around. I just heard a bunch of commotion,” said Mary Bradley.

She said the neighbor has fed the cat colony in his backyard for at least a year.

“He decides to shun them off and they end up in my backyard and now I have to see kittens that are starving.”

Action News Jax went to that neighbor’s house to get his side of the story.

“They’re stray cats, these are our dogs, what do you want?” said a family member at the home who was visiting from out of town.

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Then that family member called the police to say Bradley has been harassing them. Police told her there’s nothing they can do about it.

Animal Control told her it’s her responsibility to trap the cats.

“You don’t like how they let the dogs out in the backyard because they had cats back there and they don’t like how you get up on a ladder and cuss them out over the fence,” said a JSO officer to Bradley.

“I don’t cuss anybody out over the fence,” said Bradley.

The officer said Bradley can trap the cats and Animal Control will neuter them, but they’re going to bring the cats right back there afterward.

“Why am I responsible to trap the cats? I didn’t develop a family of cats like this,” said Bradley. “Somebody needs to be held accountable.”

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