GLENWOOD SPRINGS — An animal shelter in Glenwood Springs has been working to find room for 86 cats seized from one home.
The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the first group of cats and kittens on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to find room at area shelters for the animals.
Executive director Leslie Rockey says many appear to be healthy but in need of a bath.
The shelter placed the cats in crates that were stacked on top of one another in a small building normally used to isolate sick animals from the shelter’s main population.
Garfield County sheriff’s spokeswoman Tammy McGinnis said the cats were in a two-bedroom apartment.
The owner of the apartment in Battlement Mesa had asked for assistance from animal control because she was moving and said she could not manage the cats.
McGinnis said no charges have been filed against the woman, who said she wanted to give stray cats a home but became overwhelmed with animals.
