Feeding stations should not exist on public property in any form, and should be discouraged on adjacent properties as well. Without such stations, the potential for attraction and aggregation of stray cats, along with many other related problems, would be diminished. These photos were taken in December of 1998. San Leandro officials have known of this situation for over a year. At upper right is a regular feeding area next to the parking lot at the south end of the Tony Lema golf clubhouse, where cats frequently warm themselves on the hoods of visitor cars.
Lower center is a feeding area under the north side of the flood-canal bridge.
Cats are often seen sitting on the banks and rip-rap near both sides of this bridge, where more food is placed under bushes nearby. Lower corner is one of the feeding areas south of the canal, near the San Leandro sewer treatment facility, pictured directly below. During one December 1998 spot-check, four to eight adult cats were seen near each of four separate feeding locations. Later that same month, six cats were also spotted even farther south at the golf course's pond near Robert's Landing. A video showing cats hunting in the adjacent pickleweed marsh habitats was also made.