ennifer Delano has lived in the area known as Fairmount Park in Bangor for 15 years. A self-described “crazy cat lady”, Delano has seven cats, four of which are allowed outside.
“None of mine are allowed outside overnight. I do have four that are allowed outside during the day. Only one of them goes far, and he actually goes to the golf course sometimes, which I’ve always been worried about, so when he does his afternoon check-ins, to make sure his food is still out, I don’t allow him back out for the rest of the day, and he’s pretty good about it…but I’ve started to make my own adjustments so that I don’t lose any.”
Delano, who is part of an online neighborhood watch group, noticed a while back that there seemed to be an uptick in posts on their watch Facebook Page about cats in the area that had gone missing.
“We have a neighborhood group, and people always post ‘Hey my cat hasn’t come home,’ like whatever; normal stuff. But when it started to get to like 5 or 6 that I had noticed, I was kind of like ‘alright, this is weird. Something weird is going on.”