By Julia Hickey -- A longtime feline rescue operation and its owner are moving out of San Luis Obispo County after tensions with county code enforcement but vow to continue local efforts to rescue and coordinate adoptions for cats in need. Pounce director Julie Olson and the nearly 100 nonadoptable elderly, feral or special-needs cats she cares for will move to a three- bedroom home on a five-acre fenced olive orchard in Oroville, nearly 300 miles north of San Luis Obispo in Butte County. “Oroville offers the best sanctuary for the buck that I could find,” Olson wrote in a letter to supporters explaining the move.

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