97 cats found inside a Florida home

[ikojo]

I had a roommate who I thought could become an animal horder. She had a bunch of cats and didn't spay or neuter them. I moved out and left her to her own devices after she stopped working.


http://www.ksdk.com/news/world/us_world_article.aspx?storyid=136277

Nearly 100 cats have been found living in a filthy home in Florida.

Animal control officers removed 97 cats from a home in Pinellas County on Thursday.

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Officers don't plan to file charges because they say some of the residents of the home suffer from mental issues, so they are trying to get them help.

[flvegan]

1. This is a 1700 square foot home, too.

Not a lot of space for 97 cats

[alphafemale]

2. My Mom had a friend who did this.

I remember that you could scarcely breath inside her house. The ammonia smell would practically knock you over. She probably had about thirty or more inside the living part of the house. These were cats that would use litter boxes (more or less) and were fairly friendly. Then there were basement cats. Dozens more. More feral in all sense of the word. And probably where much of the smell came from.

Then there were the outside cats. She actually made a dome of chicken wire over her backyard fence to keep these most wild of the cats in.

These critters would actually bounce around inside that enclosure and walk upside down from that chicken wire.

I don't think she ever spayed or neutered a one of them. And I don't think any of those cats could have been happy. It looked like feline "Lord of the Flies" conditions. I really hope no one's pet got swept into her web because he lapped some milk off a saucer on her stoop. Yikes.

And she seemed "OK" and normal except for this one issue.

When she died it made the nightly news. Because of the cats. As I recall most of them had to be "put down." They were mostly all feral.

[nomorenomore08]

3. One of my friends back in high school

had parents who insisted on owning about a dozen cats at any one time. Any time one cat would be run over by a car (this happened rather frequently), they'd just go get another one. And yes, the whole house reeked of cat piss.