Cat charges dropped

By: centraljersey.com
BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The local man who was ticketed for having too many cats on his property said the citations have been dismissed.
This came after it was confirmed to police that he had had the cats licensed and after he gave two cats to his mother and let a third go free.
But for Walter Andrew, of Woodland Road, who had seven feral felines on his minus-1 acre property, there is still a problem and he intends to bring it up at the next Township Committee meeting.
Mr. Andrew said he wants the committee to either make an exception to the four-cats- per-1-acre law, or change the law.
"The law specifies dogs and cats. It doesn’t mention other animals, so I guess you could have six or seven potbellied pigs," he said Tuesday. "And if someone had 1.01 acres, they could have as many cats as they want."
His aim is to eventually retrieve the two cats from his elderly mother and care for the one he freed so that it will not starve, he said.
After a neighbor had complained about the seven feral cats, he was told by the township code enforcement officer that he had to get rid of three of them. – Birgitta Wolfe