Originally published by West Carolina Reporter

A Siamese cat named Samson is waiting outside the door of the shelter. Upon entering, the entire shelter could hear the meowing of 43 cats, preparing to welcome their first meal of the day. Taking medicine, feeding, cleaning the trash can in the morning, and plenty of game time keep the only staff of CatMan2 busy. The air was filled with the smell of cat litter and cat food. Cats surround you, some are still asleep, some are right in front of you, waiting to be played and petted.

As stated on the CatMan2 website, Kaleb Lynch is a 34-year-old cat "pool boy" and the only person who has run a CatMan2 shelter in 10 years. He takes care of dozens of animals that depend on him almost every moment.

Lynch arrives at the shelter at 8 o'clock every morning and starts to give the cats the morning medicine. Then it's feeding. Wet food for adult cats and kittens, dry food for side chambers. 

After shoveling the trash can, Lynch began to clean the cage and the floor. 

"We have to clean twice a day," Lynch said in an interview. "It's like a cleaning cycle. You do one thing, and then go back and do it again."

During this time, Lynch maintained the Facebook of the shelter, answered calls and responded to emails. With dinner feeding and night medicine distribution, Lynch can go home at night. 

Lynch lives in the same house as the cat shelter, and he will even come back at night to check on everyone.

Lynch is from Raleigh and is a psychology major at Western Carolina University. Before the asylum, Lynch was a rape crisis consultant and Wal-Mart store manager, and then found his home in CatMan2. 

How he got the career of "Billiard Boy", no wonder it has something to do with a cat. When Lynch moved to the area, he met a beautiful white cat and two kittens. She often visits the property where he lives. One day, he saw that her foot was badly injured and was in danger of decay. Not knowing what to do, he called the Jackson County Animal Shelter for help. They suggested that the best thing for a cat is to put her down.

At first, he refused. However, in the end, Lynch agreed to euthanize her to prevent her suffering. 

When he was late for work, Lynch managed to see the white cat being carried into the truck, preparing for euthanasia. "It happened at the right time," Lynch said.

Lynch said: "I didn't let them take her away, but knelt down and started crying." He promised to take her to the vet and take care of her for them. 

In return for helping them, he will start volunteering at the Jackson County Animal Shelter.

After spending a few months there, Lynch was introduced to CatMan2, a cat rescue partner at the Jackson County Animal Shelter. He volunteered to help the original owner and founder Harold Sims (Harold Sims) in his spare time. In the end, Sims had to retire and asked Lynch if he was willing to work full-time in the shelter. Sims is also the creator of the American Domestic Cat Museum, which is currently closed due to relocation to a new building.

Lynch is the only staff member of the shelter because they have no funds to support any other full-time employees. The CatMan2 shelter operates entirely on donations and heavily relies on volunteers to help cats stay social and happy.

"I am deeply obligated to continue to take care of the cat and let the CM2 mission continue to exist. To be honest, I feel that even if I want to leave (I don't want to), I can't do it because there is no one else," Lynch said in an email Say.

Regular volunteers, 10-year-old Caleb, 14-year-old Jada and their mother Sarah Marsic come to spend time with the cats every week.

Caleb is a fourth-grade student and spends time petting and playing with cats in each room for an hour every week. Lynch said that seeing him every week will brighten up everything about him. Caleb is very popular on CatMan2's Facebook page because of his energy and love of animals.

Volunteers Liz Stevens and Debbie Sawyer are second-year WCU students. They come to the shelter every day to play with kittens, clean the cage and help Lynch complete his daily tasks.

Although many of their cats can be adopted, half of the cats they care for are shelter cats, which means they will spend the rest of their lives in the shelter.

The two most famous sheltered cats are Memaw and Todd. These two older cats cannot be adopted but are very friendly. Todd is in his pink shark tent, known as the "mascot" of the sanctuary. Memaw is a cat that surrendered a few years ago. It usually walks around in the shelter and may make a harsh meow.

CatMan2 is a no-kill shelter. It rarely surrenders publicly, but tries to help the cats at the Jackson County Animal Shelter.

In this year alone, CatMan2 received 157 animals and 138 have been adopted as of the time of publication.

The importance of this shelter cannot be underestimated. There are a large number of homeless cats in western North Carolina. With the help of CatMan2, many cats can find a loving home, even if that home is in a shelter. 

To learn more about how to volunteer with CatMan2, click here. Thank you very much to all volunteers and donations.