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Have you ever locked eyes with a cat whose legs are so short, it almost looks like a walking stuffed animal? Munchkin cats, ...
A charred frame sits in the afternoon sun at 12 Dourland Road in Medford. Hours earlier, Christopher Arsenault, founder of the cattery Happy Cat Sanctuary, had been in the then-in-tact home ...
Neighbors of a Long Island cat sanctuary that burned in a suspicious fire tearfully remembered its owner, Chris Arsenault, who died trying to rescue his beloved felines from the blaze. “I’m ...
The early morning fire Monday destroyed the Happy Cat Sanctuary, built in the home and backyard of its founder, Christopher Arsenault, 65, who had about 300 cats in the sanctuary on Dourland Road.
The cats roamed through his house and property, and some were kept in enclosures. That act of kindness was born from grief. Arsenault, 65, started the Happy Cat nonprofit following the death of ...
A large fire destroyed a mobile home in Pinellas County that doubled as a cat rescue, housing at least 50 cats.
When a little girl started singing "If You're Happy and You Know It," her rescue cat Bebe responded with a perfectly timed ...
A GoFundMe campaign for Happy Cat Sanctuary has raised over $800,000 since the March 31 blaze that killed 65-year-old pet lover Chris Arsenault Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.
There's nothing more satisfying to a loving pet parent than knowing their furry friend is happy. Since they are unable to come right out and say how they feel, cats, especially, communicate their ...
A fire at a decades-old neighborhood cat sanctuary on New York's Long Island killed the community's beloved "Cat Man" and dozens of the animals. Chris Arsenault, who opened the sprawling Happy Cat ...
Miranda Gonzalez hired a mariachi band but didn’t tell them the quinceañera was for a cat for fear they would drop out.
Hundreds of cats remain unaccounted for in the deadly fire at Happy Cat Sanctuary on Long Island. The sanctuary's founder Chris Arsenault died trying to put out the fire in his Medford home ...