Lynea Lattanzio wanted her own cat when she was little, and her mother said "no." Now, she has more than 700:
"I bet she's sorry now!" says Lynea Lattanzio, referring to her mother's forbiddance of felines in the house. Founder and owner of California's largest no-cage, no-kill cat sanctuary, Lattanzio lives with more than 700 cats. Boxes of abandoned kittens, emergency CPR, meds for sick strays — each day brings a new set of challenges to her refuge on 12 acres in central California.
Nat Geo WILD has the story:
Link - Thanks Minjae!
Call 559-896-8696 to schedule an appointment.
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A No kill shelter, Life time sanctuary, and adoption center.
@ those with comments about the "smell", unless you have actually visited this woman's property (or have a prototype of smell-o-vision), you cannot possibly know what the place smells like... with proper methods in place to deal with waste (and the place appears to be VERY clean), there should be no overt "smell" to the property....
as for the birds, SOME cats are hunters, but not ALL will kill birds or mice... if a cat is well fed, it has no reason to hunt down wildlife and kill it...
@ those who advocate killing... whether the life you advocate taking is a person or an animal, it is still a life, given by a power you do not understand, for purposes that you cannot know... you are not qualified to judge this person, and no one should be allowed to deprive a living creature of the life given to it...
I take comfort in the fact that karma WILL deal with all of us, one day... this woman, and any other protector of living things, will be rewarded for her compassion... and those with no compassion for life, will get their own "reward"....
I'm sure what she's doing is wonderful, but ugh.. we have one cat and that's enough.