I would do this as well, if I won the lottery. I'd take all the cats that nobody wants. I live with fourteen cats that nobody wants right now and they make the very nicest cats, I think.
I would also buy a huge piece of property and open a cat sanctuary. We'd have of course, the large main house that would be set up with a huge playroom for my babies. There would be walkways and perches all over the place and a very large, fully equipped catio in the back. In my personal home there would probably be about 10 or so cats. More than likely it would be the or so.
Then we would have the shelter/sanctuary itself which would be a huge building that would be set up as close to a home environment as possible with a smaller building set up especially for kitties with special needs. We'd have a medical building with a vet and some techs on hand 24/7 with the staff rotating in and out every 8 hours.You never know when a cat will get sick or when an ill or injured cat will be brought in as a rescue call. We'd work with local caretakers of feral colonies to assist them with their cats' medical and other needs. We'd also work with shelters that have high kill percentages to take cats from them after we have adopted any out and have space available.
I'd need a large staff of employees and volunteers. The volunteers would be used mainly to socialize with the cats to help get them adopted quicker. We'd also utilize some of them, along with employees, my assistant and myself to go around to schools, resident groups and local government officials to help educate them about feral cats and why they are not nuisances, deserve to be treated kindly and why TNR programs are so important not just for the cats but for the community in general.
It would be a crazy, insanely busy, outrageously expensive life but at the same time it would also be a priceless one.
Can you tell I've been thinking about this for a long time??
