When I left the facility, she gave me a stray cat to look after.

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The Red Sox hired Valentine as manager to replace Terry Francona, a two-time World Series winner brushed out the door like a stray cat.

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He lives alone, aside from a stray calico cat with matted fur, which he has named El Gato and sometimes feeds.

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His wife, with his support, started The Long Island Spay and Neuter Fund which is a non profit that assists their community in the humane control of the stray and feral cat population using trap and release method after being spayed or neutered, whom currently houses and cares for over 20 cats while desperately trying to find permanent homes for them.

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Lifelike dogs and cats of all sizes are scattered along the floor, from a perky-looking Brittany spaniel to a regal Persian cat, a lone iguana and the stray cockatiel or two.

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While the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Cat Protection League re-house about 125, 000 stray or unwanted cats a year, the League guesses that there may be about 1.2m feral cats in Britain.

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