Courtney Gustafson could never have guessed just how much her life would change when she moved into her new rental home in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson.
Practically overnight, she became the unwitting guardian to not one, not two, but some 30 feral cats that called her backyard home.
“I’ve always been a cat person, but never had any plans to get into animal welfare or rescue cats, or have 30 of them at a time,” Gustafson said.
Gustafson moved into the midtown neighborhood five years ago, during the summer of 2020 in the middle of the COVID pandemic, when everyone was social distancing and isolated from regular life…