Inside Shanti's House: A unique sanctuary for feral felines

It's probably not what you’d expect to see at the back of an assisted living facility for seniors — gardens, fountains, cat houses, a tree house.The founder and head of Shanti's House, Kristina Hancock, shows a KPBS crew around the sanctuary's main cottage on April 6, 2022.Hancock founded Shanti’s House five years ago. It’s not like she didn’t have enough to do — she’s both a lawyer and a critical care nurse.

But Hancock said she knew that wasn’t enough — the cats needed a place to live. So, she contacted the owners of a nearby assisted living facility and proposed building a cat sanctuary behind the building. That's when Shanti’s House was born.“We have a ground lease for 12 and a half years for this. They gave us this space," said Hancock.

You might be wondering where this special place is. However, Shanti's House prefers to keep its address private. Hancock said she's afraid if people know where it is, they’ll be inundated with feral cats. The abandonment of cats or any other kind of animal is a crime, she adds.One of several individual cat houses is shown at Shanti's House on April 6, 2022.

The sanctuary is divided into a series of pavilions that are meant to be calming for the cats. There's another building set apart from the main sanctuary built with healing in mind.“This is the new infirmary that we just built, so cats can go in and out," Hancock said of the new building.

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