Stray kittens at the Pizza Predatoria...

[Magpie]

Looks like someone dumped a litter of kittens near the park yesterday. At least three of them - leggy juveniles, somewhere between 6 and 9 months old from the look of them - were lurking around the Pizza Predatoria today. There were two beautiful silver tabbies and one that appeared to be mostly white. A crew member told us that they'd called Park Services to come and trap them, but when we were leaving the park at about 6:30, we spotted one of the tabbies still hanging about. They're shy, but clearly not feral.

I do hope they find a good home. It's such a shame when people are irresponsible with their pets.

 

[Timmy Boy]

They've been there for a while. There are neighborhoods surrounding the park, it's probably where they come from.

 

[Magpie]

They've been there for a while. There are neighborhoods surrounding the park, it's probably where they come from.

Ah, okay. The TM we spoke to said they'd just shown up that day. She did say that they used to have a fairly big problem with stray cats in the past.

I once had someone dump a litter of kittens the same age on my lawn, years ago. This is exactly the age when they stop being so cute and people start thinking about how expensive they're going to be, long term.

 

[phamton]

It's kind of hard to dump cats at a themepark as you have to go through security to get in. Both guests and team members go though security checks when they enter. There are neighborhoods near the parks. Sometimes, outside cats wander in from these neighborhhods and have babies.

 

[Magpie]

It's kind of hard to dump cats at a themepark as you have to go through security to get in. Both guests and team members go though security checks when they enter. There are neighborhoods near the parks. Sometimes, outside cats wander in from these neighborhhods and have babies.

I never thought that! I just thought maybe they'd been dumped in one of the neighbourhoods outside the park and wandered in. That's why I said "near the park" in my original post.

 

[phamton]

I never thought that! I just thought maybe they'd been dumped in one of the neighbourhoods outside the park and wandered in. That's why I said "near the park" in my original post.

Oops! Sorry I missed that little detail.

 

[ChrisFL]

Odd, they usually wait until they're older before feeding them to the raptors.













just kidding! I own a cat and would never think of doing such a thing.

 

[the Dark Marauder]

The area by Pizza Pred is probably going to be their home now. JP just has the right atmosphere for them.

 

[lauren5406]

This reminds me of one of the strangest things I think I've seen. Last January when we were there we spotted a cat inside IOA just hanging out on the ledge of the window sill of that bakery on your right as you're walking through the POE. I got his picture:

 

[zhengtianshou3113]

I agree with the above statement. Good point!

 

[BuckeyeGuy28]

The cats are actually Universal property. Because JP has an enviornment good for creepy crawlies, the cats are there to eat things like bugs and rats. The park figures you'd rather see cats running around than bugs.

Yeah, surrounding neighborhoods like Orange Tree probably have a lot of stray kittens running around, but those fences surrounding the parks are meant to keep people out, so you'd have to be one determined cat to get in, then make your way past all the machinery and rides to the guest area by Pizza Pred

 

[phamton]

They are strays not owned by Universal. They did not place them there to catch vermin. They are just allowed to stay until the population gets out of hand then they are trapped.

 

[HillPete]

We saw two kitties at Royal Pacific last week! (and one on Castaway Cay, but that's for a different forum...) They were obviously strays, but 'at home' in the jungles around the resort. Very friendly, too. It was nice to pet a cat after nearly 2 weeks away from ours.

 

[Dax]

If anything, they might be captured, spayed/neutered, and possibly returned to the area...they help control the rat/bug population that is RAMPANT in the parks..

We just saw a black cat running around Ft Wilderness last night

 

[Magpie]

The cats are actually Universal property. Because JP has an enviornment good for creepy crawlies, the cats are there to eat things like bugs and rats. The park figures you'd rather see cats running around than bugs.

Yeah, surrounding neighborhoods like Orange Tree probably have a lot of stray kittens running around, but those fences surrounding the parks are meant to keep people out, so you'd have to be one determined cat to get in, then make your way past all the machinery and rides to the guest area by Pizza Pred

I don't understand why a security system designed to keep people out would have any effect on an insanely flexible creature less than one tenth our size. Also, cats climb and like to get into small enclosed places.

Just in our house I've retrieved cats from...

The fresh air return duct system.

The space under the bathroom floor (my mom's cat pried a metal access hatch off and squeezed through in order to hide under the tub).

Under the second floor floorboards (my cat climbed up a ladder and into the ceiling).

When we raised up our house to build a basement we found two dead, mummified cats underneath the foundation. They must have crawled under there when the house was being built in the 1920's and got trapped.

I have no trouble believing cats could travel from outside the park into the center of it.