The Cat Person

}New employees often spend the first few months on the job trying not to get eaten alive. Tammy Quist has to worry about that during her off hours, too.

Quist, an account supervisor at Fallon in Minneapolis, is founder and director of The Society for Wild Cat Education—a 10-acre compound nearby that currently houses 10 exotic cats and five domesticated cats and dogs. Just a few months ago, though, Quist ran the entire operation—servals, lynxes, cougars and all—in Atlanta, where she managed national consumer programs for Coca-Cola.