While I’m not a member, I have eaten at Club 33 during Bats Day (a Gothic Day at Disneyland, fun to fill the park with people in black! http://www.batsday.net/home/home.html) a few years ago.

The description of it in the article is fairly poor. It’s actually a four-star restaurant, plus lounge. Here are some photos. http://www.mouseclubhouse.com/photo-stories/club-33/club33-1.htm The servers are all long-time Disney employees, and it’s a highly prized position, because tipping is expected (and high). It is the only place in the park itself where alcohol is served, but with the addition of Downtown Disney, there’s an adjoining location for people without $10,000 to catch a buzz on a much lower budget.

If you’re eating at 33 during a visit to DL, you’re expected as as man to dress in at least business casual clothing, and women are expected to wear dresses – no pants allowed. (No one can wear shorts, open toed shoes, tank tops, or any of your other typical tourist attire.) The dress code is strictly enforced, and if you’re meeting someone there as their guest, you’re not allowed to even ride up the entrance elevator until shortly before your appointed reservation time. It’s clear that they take their security very seriously.

Now on to those cats…

I’m sure they mean that vets are doing this work, but I can’t help but picture a guy wandering the park at night with an oversized butterfly net and an evil-looking pair of pliers.

Disney has done a lot of really nasty stuff as the empire that it is – but, the cats, not so much. California is overrun with feral felines, and at least most of the park cats do end up getting fixed. I’m pretty sure all they can do is control their existing, constantly shifting population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeld-Wen_Field

http://www.oregonlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2011/04/pet_talk_jeld-wen_field_takes.html

The feral cats cannot be domesticated, but there’s hope for the kittens. Again, there are volunteers who take the kittens into their foster homes until a home can be found.

To their credit, pet stores, pet food companies and private individuals donate to these non-profits since this is an effective, humane method. Plenty of informative videos on YouTube.

Whew! I thought you said human traps.

That would make Disney way more interesting. :)

What would you use for bait?

Annual Disney Passports :)

No. Just an ocassional handy from Sneezy. Nothing to write home about. (Seriously. Let’s just keep this thing between ourselves.)

Feral species need to be captured and euthanized (that means killed). Unfortunately it’s not easy to get this past the kitty loving population but that’s too bad.

And I guarantee you 100% that Disney has a massive budget for pest control services and that includes mice. Purdy little kitties are not going to hold down a population of mice in the food rich environment of an amusement park.

Above the firehouse near Main Street was an apartment where Walt sometimes stayed. I was told it is haunted and no one goes up there anymore.

According to insiders I know that apartment has a reputation for being one of the spots where randy Disneyland employees sometimes sneak off to for a quickie. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “haunted” reputation was started by a maintenance crew tired of cleaning Walt’s historic bedspread (or who just wanted the place to themselves).

http://www.cracked.com/article_18511_6-true-stories-about-disneyland-they-dont-want-you-to-know_p2.html

After the park was built, the night staff noticed that hundreds of the nocturnal Texas Night Thrasher rattlers would prowl the park at night. Night Thrashers are one of the few species of rattlesnake that are exclusively active at night, pretty useless during the day.

Rather than discourage this, they hired snake wranglers to manage the population and they save a heck of a lot on rodent control. It also has the bonus of keeping out intruders. Some of the surplus snakes are donated to churches, but the rest are just euthanized. Supposedly the med stations keep anti-venom close-by.

(About Teller’s comment)
Current dress code enforcement does not allow all kinds of things:
http://www.suite101.com/content/disneylands-dress-code-for-guests–rules–forbidden-clothing-a237397
So put away that black mesh shirt and utili-kilt unless it’s Bats Day!

I’m told that the cats were protected by the studio brass; mess with ‘em and you’d never work on the lot again. I suspect that story is apocryphal. A quick Google dug up this story from 22 years ago, when the Warner Ranch was overrun with wild pussies and the studio considered trapping the lot of ‘em.

The first movie I ever worked on was Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers, part of which was shot on the main Warner Bros lot back in Summer 1991. The monsters in that movie have kind of an allergy to cats (and the cats despise them, too), so toward the end of the movie there’s kind of a standoff between the monsters and a buttload of cats. We brought a whole bunch of cats onto the lot for the several days we were shooting those sequences, and I’m pretty sure some of the non-hero “extra” cats escaped and joined the feral population. Maybe those were the ones pooping next to my parking space 18 years later.