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Sep 19, 2008

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." --Irish Proverb

The Woman Who Saved 16,000 Cats

Lynea Lattanzio, a fit 50-something woman with curly brown hair, slides open her kitchen door and five, 10, 15 cats rush through the opening like water gushing out of a pressurized spigot. The Cat House on the Kings is a 12-acre sanctuary for abandoned and feral cats in California's Central Valley. Over 600 cats live here along with Lattanzio, who dedicates her ranch-style home to the cause of keeping them alive and healthy in hopes of adoption."This was not in my life's plan," says Lattanzio, sitting at her kitchen table, a cat in her lap and several others under the table. She studied marketing and biology in college, and worked for years in real-estate development. But life is full of surprises...