Barbara is such a pet lover that in addition to her five cats, she befriends all the neighborhood cats by putting out food for them twice a day on the porch outside her apartment. She buys a huge bag of dry cat food twice a month. Paul says it is a known apartment ritual that when you see a procession of stray cats making their way to Barbara's second story "cat dining room" in the morning and in the evening, it is feeding time and the cats know it. (We have a similar ritual at the Tallgrass dining room -- three times a day and instead of stray cats, it's just the residents!)

It has happened for so long, Paul recognizes the cats. Paul says the cats do not want to be befriended any more than to be fed, and if you do try to befriend them, they scatter -- all ten to fifteen of them, even jumping off the second floor feeding station!