STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
John Lundin, one of the valley’s resident historians, notes that someone brought a load of cats from Salt Lake City to the Wood River Valley in 1882, selling them to the miners who made up the bulk of the population for $5 each.
“That was a lot of money at the time,” he said.
Cats—and dogs—are still in demand. Boiseans and other out-of-towners have been known to keep track of animals on Mountain Humane’s website, dropping everything at a moment’s notice to stake their claim.
Here are a few more pictures from the Mountain Humane campus under construction: