Pets Next Door: Walton’s Working Cats Clock In On Their Second Chance

From Lakewood-East Dallas Advocate:

By Jaime Dunaway

August 25th, 2020

A pair of guards lurk amid the teeming ferns in the greenhouse at Walton’s Garden Center, waiting to pounce on intruders that dare to devour the plants.

Employee Kate Walton, whose parents own the garden center, adopted the two working cats in January through a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals program intended to clear feral felines from the shelter and help businesses solve their rodent problem in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way.

But the cats at Walton’s aren’t killers.

“We don’t really have a rodent problem. I just loved the idea of having a cat around,” Walton says. “I’m a big animal person, so I forced it on everybody — not that anyone really opposed. It’s a boost of morale every day when you come into work.”

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