title: The Cats of Kittyville: New Lives for Rescued Felines
author: Best Friends Animal Society
description: Best Friends Animal Society is a non-profit, tax-exempt charity that was started by Michael Mountain and a group of friends, who sought to create a no-kill haven for rescued animals. The pilot program expanded and Best Friends was established in the early 1980s. They have great success in rescuing and rehabilitating animals and finding homes for them. The sanctuary is located at Angel Canyon in Southern Utah, a 3,700 acre ranch at the heart of the famous Golden Circle of national parks, close to Zion National Park, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Lake Powell. A wide range of animals, including dogs, cats, birds, horses, rabbits, goats, and farm animals are cared for at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. The organization reaches across the nation, helping groups, individual people, and entire communities to set up spay/neuter, shelter, foster, and adoption programs in their own neighborhoods, cities and states.
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  # [Dedication](part0002.xhtml#nde1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This year we all lost furry friends, once-forgotten kitties who made life
  joyful for those who took them in and found how
  
  
  much love they had to give.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHARLIE turned out to be a girl, but she didn’t mind being Charlie.
  
  
  SUZIE, who left no doubt in anyone’s mind that she was a she.
  
  
  CU TEE, a tuxedo kitty whose purr could be heard all over the room.
  
  
  
  
  
  And then there were those kitties who preferred to be in the wild, but who
  came to dinner and let you know how grateful they
  
  
  were.
  
  
  
  
  
  GROUCHO and ROSIE, who have no known grave, but left paw prints on the heart
  all the same.
  
  
  
  
  
  And there were four little ones who didn’t make it. Two who had names and two
  who left us before they could be named, but
  
  
  were loved too.
  
  
  
  
  
  TINY BASH, Ziggy’s feisty black kitten.
  
  
  MING, the sweet little Siamese, who joined her smaller sister all too s