Catherine Bradley delivers some love to one of her 57 cats. Bradley was once known as the “Palm Beach cat lady.”
(Post photo/Rich Graulich)
In Palm Beach, Catherine Bradley was revered and reviled when she began feeding the island’s stray cats in the 1980’s.
She was feeding up to 500 feral felines when she pioneered the once-controversial “trap-neuter-release” method of controlling wild cat populations.
She even briefly went to jail for trespassing on private property while feeding stray cats.
Bradley was ahead of her time.
Animal Care and Control and Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League are urging Palm Beach County Commissioners to adopt the “trap-neuter-vaccinate-release” (TNVR) program Bradley began county-wide, despite objections of wildlife organizations who say free-roaming cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds in the U.S. every year.
The final vote is set for June 23.
It’s breakfast time at Bradley’s cat shelter west of Palm Beach Gardens, where she lives on five acres. (Post photo/Rich Graulich)
Surprisingly, the usually scrappy Bradley is staying out of this cat fight, preferring to quietly care for nearly 60 cats and a few dogs at her 5-acre cat shelter in the woods west of Palm Beach Gardens.
Talk a walk with Bradley in the Flipagram below. Can’t see it? Click here.
Read the full story Sunday in the Accent section of The Palm Beach Post and online at mypalmbeachpost.com.
