Your Turn: Your Feedback On ‘Cat House’, Dead Animals & Tax Levy Increase

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A Watertown home was condemned last week after officials found sick and dead cats as well as cat skeletons. The Lansing Street house was filled with cat feces and urine.

Here are some of your emails:

“The real problem lies with the real owners who don’t bother to spay/neuter their cats and the resulting kittens.”

Marilyn Hutchings

“Who is going to pay for the services of police and others needed to see this through? It shouldn’t be the tax payer. The SPCA is to its limits already.”

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“This is very sad and just shows why the shelter needs a makeover. There just isn’t enough room for all the sick, abused, and throw away animals here in Watertown.”

Judith Loomis

“The expansion of Fort Drum is adding to the cat abandonment problem. I feel that Jefferson County needs to step up to the plate and start discussing this issue.”

Paula Bender

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the discovery of badly decomposed animal carcasses along Keyes Road in the town of Antwerp.

Here’s an email on the subject:

“I hope the person that is doing this gets caught. And I hope he heard it on the news and is realizing that it’s known he’s being watched now.”

Heather Scheer

The Carthage Central School Board is asking taxpayers to dig a little deeper into their wallets for the proposed budget. Residents will see a 9.8 percent increase in the tax levy if voters approve the spending plan.

Here’s what one of you had to say:

“The dilemma that has been put before many people is whether to buy food or medications. The response from the Carthage School Board makes the decision clearer. After you pay your school taxes, you won’t be able to afford either.”

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