At Disneyland, feral cats rule
Source: Mother Nature Network, July 15, 2015
The cats receive terrific care from the park in exchange for dealing with non-Mickey mice.
Since its earliest days, Disney has embraced animals. From Mickey to Donald to Piglet to Dumbo, Walt Disney's kingdom has always been densely populated with all sorts of species. Almost all of them have been animated or, if you go to the parks, humans dressed up in animal costumes.
However, not all of the animals at the California theme park are fictional characters. A colony of feral cats has made a home in the park, largely avoiding the heavy crowds during the day by sleeping in bushes and behind-the-scenes areas, and then emerging at night to hunt for mice and other small prey.
Disney's PR department declined to comment on the feral cat population when we contacted them. Luckily, we were able to gather some intel from Renée Wicklund, a recent visitor who spotted a feral cat and asked one of the maintenance workers about the feline.
Wicklund, a writer and lawyer from New York, told us, "Any multi-acre park in an urban area will probably have some number of feral cats, so I wasn't surprised when we saw a cat hanging out in the vegetation of the 'woodland' area. I was, however, surprised that the cat looked healthy, well-fed, and reasonably acclimated to people. When we informed a Disney maintenance worker about the cat, she told us that, unlike so many other parks, Disney addresses the issue by allowing the cats to reside as a maintained feral colony. The cats are spayed/neutered, and they enjoy their own protected feeding-and-litter area, along with regular veterinary care."
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/disneyland-feral-cats-rule
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noticing any cats, but I'm certainly not surprised that they'd be there. Glad they're being cared for (and probably better than we were... 
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