Tabby's Place is a cat sanctuary situated in Ringoes, New Jersey, United States. Opened in 2003, it can house approximately 100 cats, which come primarily from high-volume public animal shelters where they have been scheduled to be killed. History Opened in 2003, the inception of Tabby's Place began with a stray brown tabby cat. Jonathan Rosenberg, then Chief Technology Officer at CNET, and his wife Sharon adopted this cat and named him "Tabby". The Rosenbergs lost Tabby fifteen years later to untreatable squamous cell carcinoma. In honor of Tabby, Jonathan resigned from his job, cashed in his company stock options and invested more than US$2 million to create a new 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation called Tabby's Place. The sanctuary was established "to provide refuge to cats in hopeless situations." The sanctuary's 500th intake was documented in 2007 in the Westchester Times Tribune. The physical therapy Tabby's Place gives to a paraplegic resident, Tashi, attracted the attention of national and local media, including Cat Channel upon Tashi's rescue in 2008, Best Friends Animal Society, ZooToo in 2008, the Courier News in 2009, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in 2009, and WWOR-TV. In June 2010, a USA Today article described a United States Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan, who had been caring for three stray cats when his local animal shelter was being shut down. The cats were scheduled to be euthanized, but the Marine requested help from the Okinawan American Animal Rescue Society, which arranged for the cats' journey from Okinawa to Tabby's Place. The transfer, which occurred in April 2010, was Tabby's Place's first international rescue. Located in the small New Jersey town of Ringoes, Tabby's Place houses approximately 100 cats from public shelters where they have been scheduled to be killed as of 2010. As of late 2010, over 750 Tabby's Place cats had been adopted, approximately 150 had lived out the remainder of their lives at the sanctuary, and 100 awaited adoption by qualifying families. At the time, founder Jonathan Rosenberg served as unsalaried full-time executive director and Sharon Rosenberg as volunteer coordinator at Tabby's Place. In 2011, Tabby's Place: A Cat Sanctuary was the host of a Trap-Neuter-Return Boot Camp with the Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society. In 2014, funds raised by a tour of the cat Lil Bub were in part donated to Tabby's Place. In June 2015, Tabby's Place held a Kitten Shower open