Bruce and Terry Jenkins planted gardens and built elaborate outdoor enclosures and bridges, turning their Florida backyard into a paradise for senior cats to spend their remaining days. The retired couple opened Cats Cradle Foundation in 2015, with the purpose of helping cats that aren’t just in their golden years but have run out of options and would otherwise face homelessness. Their unique rescue story is the subject of Cat Town, USA , a moving 73-minute documentary screened on Saturday at Milwaukee Film’s Dialogues Documentary Festival .

The film combines interviews, mostly with the Jenkinses, and footage of the cats as they navigate daily life in their retirement home, along with chickens, parakeets and a miniature horse named Shortcake that periodically races around the grounds.

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