I’m a fellow fuzz enthusiast and I volunteer at a no-kill adoption center called PAWS Chicago —
( http://www.pawschicago.org/index.html )

One of the things that surprised me was the number of hoarded cats we get. At the moment we have two families–black and white and orange and white. the heartbreaking thing is that they will never be able to stay together–who can take 6 or more cats home? What PAWS does, however, is ask that an adopter take 2. Or at least have other cats, because hoarded cats don’t do well in single kitty homes.

Over the years I followed in my mom’s tradition of rescuing animals and finding them homes. The last one was Dreamer, short for Dreamsickle, an orange and white cat I found in the alley. At first he wouldn’t come near me. I put food outside the yard where he went to hide and gradually moved the food to my yard where I had a bed and food and water bowls under a protective table. He got his kitty luggage and moved in. I of course was going to find him a good home. I didn’t think it was going to be mine…but I never regretted it. I will always have fond memories of my boy.