Tuesday, May 24, 2016

The Case of the Dixfield Cats

About two dozen cats live in a Dixfield trailer home that's now a de facto shelter maintained by the Dixfield Cat Ladies. A former resident here left a modest fortune to provide the strays with "shelter, food and health care," but the money's been tied up in litigation for years.


From a post by James L. Madonald

In a modest trailer in Dixfield, Maine, live a lucky group of homeless cats – lucky because they are looked after by the Dixfield Cat Ladies. 


Twelve years ago one of the Cat Ladies died. She left most of her estate, about $150,000, for the creation of a corporation or trust "for the purpose of providing shelter, food and health care for abandoned and unwanted cats in the Town of Dixfield."

Are the Dixfield cats living in luxury and organic catnip? Not yet. Predictably, bequests to animals produce more snarls than purrs. Click here to read the story.



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