In 2019, real estate developer Mark Lane purchased a historic building in New York known as The New York Wire Works. Having been built in 1888, the large former factory had a long storied history, and Lane quickly discovered that it was also already occupied by some furry tenants! Upon purchasing the property, Lane found … Read more
In 2019, the people of Flatbush Cats, a TNR (Trap Neuter Return) focused Brooklyn-based charity was in the process of putting out humane cat traps when a street cat started meowing at them looking for help. This is not a usual occurrence, feral and street cats generally avoid humans which is why traps are needed … Read more
Sightings of the Coors Field cat had been happening around the baseball stadium in Denver for years before she was eventually caught. A Twitter account devoted to the feline was set up in 2019 which posts about the sightings of Socks and her feline friends. Socks the cat usually hung around the back of the … Read more
In this touching story from The Dodo, a man who once had no hope met a few stray felines that helped changed his life forever. A man named Gregory Brandt (nicknamed Mr.G) lived in Hawaii without a home to call his own for three years. During this time he befriended two stray cats he called … Read more
Lynea Lattanzio refers to herself as an “eccentric crazy cat lady”, and since 1981 has lived with and taken in approximately 28,000 cats. It all began when her father asked her to accompany him to an animal shelter to help him pick out a new cat after his two beloved Manx cats died of old … Read more
There are dozens of islands off the coasts of Japan that known as ‘cat islands’. This is because the number of cats that live on these islands outnumber the humans living there. Aoshima for instance only had seven people living there as of 2021, and is reported to have over 10 cat residents for every … Read more
Trap Neuter Return (TNR) is a program engaged in by many animal rescues, charities, and volunteer networks across America. The goal of the program is to help control the populations of “freeroaming” cats, those that are feral or strays. This process involves the trapping of cats that have not been spayed or neutered in humane … Read more