It was late in the afternoon when I met the cats of the Santuari de Sant Salvador.

Everyone wants to know why Andre is so big, but without knowing his origins, there's not a clear answer. Takeda thinks Andre may have Savannah in him – those are huge cats.
"Within a month of us having him, people from all over Colorado, and even other states, were coming in to see him and to visit," says Takeda.
Though Andre was shy at first, he has learned to love the amount of attention he gets from customers.
He even uses his handsome looks and humongous size to promote his feline friends looking for forever homes at Cat Casita.
Takeda explains that many of the store's customers fall in love with Andre at the store, and then they end up meeting other adoptable felines at the Cat Casita shelter, which shares the same building as High Paws Pet Supplies.
Since Andre has free rein inside the building, he often goes downstairs, to Cat Casita, to interact with the shelter cats and to introduce them to "his human customers."
Since the store adopted this larger-than-life cat, adoptions have skyrocketed at Cat Casita.