Jeremy Papasso, The Daily Camera
Boulder County Jail inmate Andrew Johnson pets Ardra the cat as he works in the jail garden on Thursday in Boulder. Getting your player ready...
The Boulder County Jail has two new residents, and they are both really scary.
If you’re a mouse, that is.
Charlie and Adra are a pair of cats — nature’s terminators — brought in to hunt mice and scare away rabbits at the jail’s organic garden.
So far, they are doing pretty well.
“The kitten is the one that likes to mouse,” Sgt. Paul Heger said. “The other one is OK. They catch mice and keep them out of the plants, so we don’t have to use chemicals.”Both rescue cats, Charlie and Adra replaced Sarge, who patrolled the garden and pretty much the entire jail grounds and surrounding area for many years. Sarge’s initial replacement, Asher, didn’t take to jail life and ran off, but, so far, the new cats seem to ….
