Millikan High School is mourning Canelo, a Long Beach cat whose secret life endeared him to thousands of students

Anyone who regularly stepped foot on the Millikan High School campus in the past three years likely met Canelo, an attention-hungry orange tabby cat who became the school’s unofficial mascot.

Nearly every morning, Canelo would sit under a tree near the northwest corner of the campus and greet students walking in for the day.

This Monday, he wasn’t there. The day before, a car had killed him on Palo Verde in front of Millikan’s baseball field…

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