Muffin’s Pet Connection: Coney Island train yard cats need a home

HEY JUDE: Hi, fellow cat lover. It is Frank from the Coney Island train yard. I retired from active service as a car inspector with New York City Transit in December 2011. I am now feeding about 30 cats in five different locations around the train yard.

“I found four kittens inside one of the overhaul shops about six weeks ago. With the extreme cold weather we have had lately, I am hoping to find loving homes for these little ladies, before management calls the ACC kill shelter to remove them along with their year-old mother. They are now about nine weeks old, litter-trained. Please call me at 917-774-2060 ASAP.

“They are tame and curious about the shop despite the heavy machinery and chemicals inside the shop. I will deliver them within reasonable distance from the train yard and even pay for a preliminary vet exam. It is heartbreaking that so many people discard their cats like ‘trash’ at the train yard. They were born inside the shop and would make fabulous pets.. Thanks for your attention.

“Be well, Frank.

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“IN LOVING MEMORY… I will never forget that Novemberday in 2004 when I attended Mary Jo Tobin’s very first adoption event with the intention of adopting an adult red cat, but came home with a red ball of kitten fire that was Rocky from day one.

It was such a pleasure watchinghis shoulders rise when he drankfrom the toilet bowl.Hesat at the window watching the worldgo by.And the world watchedRocky too.

“He was loved byevery one.Children would talk to him while waiting forthe bus outside myhouse. He greeted each and every one of them,if I brought them to the window to say hello to him personally.

“Know that you’re missed terribly and that nomatter how manyother cats I have in the house, they can never take your place.Even Neil cannot come over without your being there. Goodbye my love – you are missedterribly.” — Rita Bell

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FYI: In six years, one unspayed female dog and her offspring can reproduce 67,000 unwanted pups.