But they were wild, and the shelter was already struggling with too many cats. Her first thought was to take the cats to the local shelter. She’d just recently managed to stop her cat Murphys (named for an Irish beer) from spraying, and she feared any additional feline housemates, even temporary fosters, would increase his stress and trigger a return to his old habits. The next day, she counted 11 cats and kittens, and she started to panic. But in 2010, looking out her kitchen window one summer morning, McNulty spied five black teenage kittens in her backyard.
It was all manageable as long as the unexpected cats came in a trickle. Over the years, she’d adopted two of these strays and found homes for a few more. And from time to time, a stray would show up and take shelter in her backyard shed.
In her rural community in Monrovia, Maryland, some of her neighbors let their pet cats roam free. Beth McNulty was used to seeing the occasional cat cross her property.
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