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埃德蒙顿救出98只猫。如今，动物中心已无处接收健康的流浪动物

此次扣押令埃德蒙顿的动物中心不堪重负。员工忙于安排兽医治疗并寻找安置合作伙伴，居民则需要帮忙照料健康的走失宠物。

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从埃德蒙顿一处过度拥挤的住所带走98只猫后，市动物中心已拥挤到无法接收其他健康的走失动物。市府官员称，此次扣押使动物护理与管制中心的护理负荷超过最大容量的两倍，迫使中心暂停接收，并让居民承担起部分照料流浪动物的工作。⁠2

动物保护官员于2026年11月12日星期四持搜查令搜查了市中心的一处住所。次日，中心停止接收健康的流浪和走失动物，直至另行通知。市府称这些猫的生活环境“极其拥挤”。目前尚未公布重新开放日期。⁠2⁠4

这正是此次干预带来的艰难后果：将动物从不合适的环境中带走，并不会凭空增加接收它们所需的空间、员工时间或兽医资源。眼下的任务是在照料这些被扣押的猫的同时，不影响中心已有动物的护理，也不让埃德蒙顿其他地区在动物受伤时求助无门。

暂停接收对居民意味着什么

暂停接收的对象包括健康动物，其中包括走失的狗和猫。市府请发现这类动物的人照顾它们、让它们在社区内待在安全的地方，并设法让它们与主人团聚。居民可拨打311，查询当地失物招领网站和社交媒体页面的信息。⁠2⁠4

这并不意味着中心一概拒收需要紧急护理的动物。官员表示，可采取额外措施接收受伤或陷入困境的动物，处于医疗危急状态的猫仍会被接收。这个区别很重要：市府请公众帮助照看健康的流浪动物，同时确保病情需要干预的动物仍能获得救助。⁠2⁠3

中心已经采用预约接收的方式，以平衡新收进来的猫与转至救援安置及其他项目的动物数量。市府在说明页面上表示，过度拥挤会增加疾病和压力，并减少动物转入收养项目的机会。预约安排旨在保障护理质量，而不只是管理排队。这次突然涌入的动物要求中心采取更严格的应对措施。⁠9⁠2

官员没有提供中心的绝对最大容量或动物总数。“超过两倍”描述的是中心提供护理的能力所承受的压力，不能据此负责任地推算出精确的收容数量。⁠2⁠4

医疗工作量也不只是为98只动物找地方安置。埃德蒙顿动物护理与公园巡护部门主任约翰·威尔逊在11月13日的简报会上列出了几项需求。⁠2⁠3

9需要额外兽医护理的猫 23
7怀孕的猫 23
4正在照料一窝幼崽的猫 23

这些类别并未被确定为彼此独立、没有重叠的群体，而4只猫有猫窝也不代表有4只小猫。有关小猫总数和未来出生数量的估计均未提供。母猫及其幼崽让治疗和安置工作都变得更加复杂。⁠2⁠3

据CBC 11月14日的报道，98只猫均已接受初步兽医评估。这更新了CityNews和《埃德蒙顿日报》此前11月13日的报道，当时报道称检查仍在进行。必要的护理仍在继续；完成初步评估并不意味着治疗已经结束。⁠2⁠3⁠4

目前，我们收容的所有动物都在接受优质的兽医医疗护理，我们对它们的预后非常乐观。

约翰·威尔逊 3

威尔逊在11月13日的简报会上表示，没有任何一只猫需要被安乐死。这是他当时的评估，并非对未来所有医疗结果的保证。他还表示，市府将向合作机构寻求帮助，为这些猫安排住所。它们最终将被安置在哪里仍未确定；目前尚无已完成的转移或收养安排。⁠3⁠2

调查与尚未明了的案件

此次搜查是在约一个月的调查之后进行的。调查始于有人对这些猫的生活环境提出担忧。官员进入住所前并不知道猫的确切数量。“就具体数量而言，我们持搜查令进入住所后才知道，”埃玛·菲永警佐在11月13日的简报会上说。⁠2⁠3

调查期间，官员依据《动物护理与管制附例》及其他附例开出了多张市政违规罚单。罚单数量、金额和具体违规事项尚未得到确认。官员以隐私限制为由，未透露住户身份、确切地址和更多建筑细节；调查仍在进行。⁠2⁠3

省级案件的正式状态不如此次扣押本身明确。CTV于11月14日刊发的报道称，涉事人员面临违反《阿尔伯塔省动物保护法》的指控；CBC同日的报道则称，多项指控尚待提出。CityNews在11月13日曾报道称，预计会提出指控。现有报道中没有任何起诉文件能够确认省级指控是否已经正式提出，也没有确定开庭日期。市政罚单和扣押并不等于省级定罪。⁠1⁠2⁠4

埃德蒙顿普通住户最多可养6只成年猫，养猫者必须每年办理许可证。但被扣押动物的年龄构成尚未提供：在讨论这一限额时，不能将98只猫说成98只成年猫。该限额也不能确定最终将以哪些违规行为提起诉讼。⁠2⁠3

近年来，这并非该市规模最大的一次猫只扣押。威尔逊称，之前一次重大扣押发生在2024年，当时从一处房产带走了68只猫；目前尚未确定那处房产与此次住所之间存在任何关联。他敦促主人为宠物绝育，并警告说，动物未绝育时，数量很快就可能变得难以控制。⁠2

这项工作也远不止于这处住所。菲永在11月13日的简报会上表示，埃德蒙顿在2026年调查了1,382起与动物福利有关的投诉，并在同一时期进行了2,528次后续检查。这些是全市范围的总数，并非与此次调查有关的数量。⁠2

目前，实际考验在于，治疗工作和合作机构的安置能否缓解压力，足以恢复接收健康流浪动物。尚未公布动物转移时间表或重新开放的最后期限。在此之前，一处过度拥挤的住所所带来的后果将波及全市——影响收容所工作人员、已经接受护理的动物，以及想让走失宠物回家的居民。⁠2⁠3

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  1. Officers removed 98 cats from one Edmonton home.
  2. The seizure pushed the city's animal centre beyond twice its maximum care capacity, stopping admissions for healthy stray and lost animals. The immediate question is how the city can care for these cats while helping other animals that become lost.
  3. Animal protection officers entered the downtown residence with a search warrant on November 12. The Animal Care and Control Centre paused healthy-animal intake the next day. The city says the cats had been living in extremely cramped conditions.
  4. The pause reaches people across the city who find a healthy lost dog or cat. Officials are asking those residents to help care for the animal, keep it safe in the community, and try to reunite it with its owner while shelter staff concentrate on animals already there.
  5. Residents can call 311 for information about local lost-and-found websites and social media pages. Injured or distressed animals can still be admitted through additional arrangements, and cats in medical distress are still being accepted.
  6. The city already uses scheduled intake to balance incoming cats with animals leaving for other placements. That approach is meant to preserve enough space and care for each animal. This sudden influx forced the centre to go further and temporarily stop accepting healthy strays.
  7. The centre is now operating at more than twice its maximum care capacity, city officials say. Taking in 98 cats at once means finding space and veterinary attention while continuing to care for the other animals already inside.
  8. Overcrowding can also make shelter animals more stressed and more vulnerable to illness. It can make moving them into adoption placements harder. The city's scheduled-intake system is intended to prevent those pressures by matching arrivals with outgoing placements. The pause gives staff room to focus on care.
  9. Subscribe to this channel to follow the cats' care and when healthy-stray admissions can resume.
  10. Nine cats need additional veterinary care. Seven are pregnant, and four already have litters, says John Wilson, the city's director of Animal Care and Park Rangers. Caring for mothers and kittens adds to the medical work facing the centre.
  11. All 98 cats have now received their initial veterinary assessments, and necessary treatment continues. Staff still have to work through their ongoing needs. The pregnancies and existing litters mean that finding space involves caring for mothers and their young as well as the other seized cats.
  12. Wilson said at the November 13 briefing that none of the cats would need to be euthanized. He was positive about their prognosis while veterinary care continued. The cats' eventual placement still has to be decided.
  13. Wilson said the city would reach out to partner organizations for help housing the cats. Those placements would help relieve pressure on the municipal centre. For now, staff are managing the seized animals alongside the animals that were already in their care.
  14. Officers discovered the full scale only after entering the home. Sergeant Emma Fillion said the investigation lasted about a month. It began after someone raised concerns about the cats' living conditions, before officers obtained and executed the search warrant.
  15. Officers issued several municipal violation tickets during that investigation under the Animal Care and Control Bylaw and other bylaws. Edmonton's ordinary household limit is six adult cats, and city rules require annual cat licensing. Officials have withheld the occupants' identities and the precise address while the investigation continues, citing privacy restrictions.
  16. The city says charges under Alberta's Animal Protection Act are pending. Whether those charges have now been filed isn't clear. The municipal tickets have already been issued, while the provincial case's formal status still needs to be clarified.
  17. The city handles a much wider animal-welfare workload beyond this home. Fillion gave citywide figures at the November 13 briefing, showing how often officers investigate concerns and return to check on animals after an initial visit.
  18. Edmonton had investigated 1,382 animal welfare-related complaints during 2026 and carried out 2,528 follow-up inspections over the same period. Those totals cover the whole city. They show the broader enforcement work continuing alongside this seizure.
  19. The city's previous major cat seizure removed 68 cats from a property in 2024. Wilson said large seizures have unfortunately become familiar in recent years. He urged people to spay and neuter their pets, saying numbers can become uncontrollable very quickly when animals haven't been fixed.
  20. The seized cats are receiving treatment, and the city plans to seek help housing them through partner organizations. Healthy lost animals are being cared for in the community while residents try to find their owners. The intake pause remains in place until further notice, with no reopening date announced.

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