By The Associated Press Channel 2 News KTUU

3:30 p.m. AKDT, August 20, 2012
KETCHIKAN, Alaska—
Animal control officials in Ketchikan found 53 cats, including one dead feline, in a woman's car as they met her at the ferry dock.
   
KRBD reports (http://is.gd/oNq03x) officials in Metlakatla tipped off the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Animal Protection Department about the woman and a large number of cats who had been escorted off Annette Island.
   
Ketchikan officials obtained a warrant and met her when the ferry Lituya arrived. A few of the cats escaped after biting and clawing animal control officers.
   
Animal Protection Director Kelly Ludwig-Johnson says several cats were pregnant, and have since given birth. The new mothers seem like nice cats, as do a few others.
   
But a majority are feral, and Ludwig-Johnson says they likely will be euthanized.