Refugium Peccatorum...

...Which comes from the Litany of Loreto and means literally sinners' refuge but in current Italian, in my part of the country is applied to any place where you can find everything and anything or everyone (the spare room with no set destination, the cabinet where one put things that 'might come useful at some point', the place where everybody you know might be found at some time or another, no matter how diverse they are).

Our house seems to have become a refugium peccatorum for animals, it used to be that I found them and brought them home, the last, a few years ago being

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