Our award-winning Ocean County newspaper, The SandPaper, featured an article one or two autumns ago about a Beach Haven gentleman, a long-time resident, who walked to the beach every day. He also had a male feral cat hanging around his house, if I remember, for years. The tourists abandoned the beach at summer’s end; the Island sighed in relief with the quiet. The gentleman also sighed in relief. He took his daily walk up the street to the beach, and who followed but the feral cat.

Back and forth they went every day until the cat just walked right in, not only into his house, but into this…