FREMONT RESIDENTS WHO work at animal care nonprofits say the Tri-City Animal Shelter has cut back key services since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that the cuts have made it more difficult to control a burgeoning stray cat population.
They want the shelter, which is run by the Fremont Police Department and also serves Newark and Union City, to reinstate a popular program for controlling cat overpopulation and to be more accessible to the public as it is currently only open for drop-in visits two days a week. The shelter used to be open five days a week, but the hours were cut back in the early days of the COVID pandemic.
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