No, no it is not. I live here and it is decidedly not a desert. We have areas that are but the state itself is not.

California isn't a desert. The intensity of these storms has everything to do with climate change.

The problem is it's too much at once, the ground is so saturated that the rest is just running off instead of sinking into the ground where we need it. But hey climate change gonna climate change.

I hope there's an exception carved out for rescues who partner with pet food stores. My local SPCA houses cats at the pet store so they have more visibility and more chances to be adopted.

It's all run by the SPCA themselves. They send their volunteers there to feed and care for the cats.