In 1988, a cat lover named Kathy Centala took a look around at her community. She saw far too many unwanted cats and kittens whose only option were, in most cases, overcrowded shelters with high euthanasia rates. Kathy wondered what could be done to improve the odds for these cats and quickly determined that the only solution was to take away the option of euthanasia completely.
Before long, Kathy was accepting stray cats at her home in Brier. Her name spread even further after cat lovers heard about her “no-kill policy” and she quickly became known as “The Mother Teresa of Cats.” Cats started coming in by the hundreds.