Last year, we took in over 1,000 pets and placed 96% in loving homes. The rest are still here, as we also have no length-of-stay limits. While dogs and cats make up the highest percentage of our intakes, during 2017, 97 of the animals we took in were classified as exotics.

His appearance “caused quite a sensation,” according to The Bear Paw Mountaineer, a Big Sandy, MT., newspaper, which kept tabs on Coburn and his family.

He sold one kitten for $10 in gold dust, the other six for $15 each and kept the mother cat for himself. Furthermore, he sold his 100 pounds of tobacco at $5 a pound, thus confirming that cat houses and the fine old tradition of “mining the miners” were, indeed, the best ways to get rich in a gold camp.