Barrington police were called to an unusual emergency on Saturday, Sept. 26.
At about 9 a.m., a Warren woman phoned the police and asked for help. She said she had trapped a feral kitten near the Barrington Shaw's Supermarket, but was …
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Barrington police were called to an unusual emergency on Saturday, Sept. 26.
At about 9 a.m., a Warren woman phoned the police and asked for help. She said she had trapped a feral kitten near the Barrington Shaw's Supermarket, but was running into trouble with the kitten's mother.
When police arrived, the woman was sitting inside the back seat of her car with the feral cat's kitten inside a trap. The feral cat was loose inside the car — it was standing on the dashboard and hissing at the woman.
The woman, who said she was frightened, had been bitten by the cat when she tried to trap it. Officials helped transport both the cat and its kitten to a nearby animal hospital.
The town later had the cat euthanized instead of ordering it to be quarantined. The cat's remains were sent to the Rhode Island Department of Health to be tested for rabies. (The police report did not specify the results of the test.)