Judith Davis, the "ultimate cat lady" passes; a celebration of her life is planned
Eight years ago this month, West Seattle's Judith (Escano) Davis, the "ultimate cat lady" as she was known to friends, and perhaps, felines, was stalking stray cats to rescue when the former High Point public-housing project was being bull-dozed. Well over 100 cats lived under the homes there, hiding during the day and coming out at night to hunt for food. The cats were trapped as the houses were surrounded by a chain-link fence, and some stayed put to protect their kittens.
Davis, director of the West Seattle-based cat-rescue group Friends of the Animals Foundation, or FAF, had lived in the High Point since 1991. "They've gotten used to the sound of my truck," said Davis in a Seattle Times article on July 5, 2003. "They know it means food."
She humanely trapped and rescued many of the cats, both the former house pets left by vacated residents, and feral felines.
Davis died last May 28. She was 66.