From Reuters - A report about an elderly woman hoarding hundreds of cats. About 300 cats, nearly a third of them dead, were removed from an elderly woman's Virginia home after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house, police said on Tuesday.
"Cats were coming out of the cabinets and drawers and were inside the walls. There were hundreds of them," Fairfax County Police officer Richard Henry told Reuters.
He said animal control officers removed 273 cats -- 86 of them dead -- over the weekend and slapped a condemnation order on the door of the house. The woman, her husband and daughter were told to leave.
Ruth Knueven, 82, was charged with failing to care for her animals and of improperly disposing of them. Dozens of dead cats were found in plastic bins around the house.
What is it about cats that drive people crazy?
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The house is located in a very upscale neighborhood. The reports keep mentioning how the grounds of the house were expertly manicured, etc. Makes the whole incident more bizarre.
Is it Cat Blog Friday already????
Oh man... Don't do that to me, cube! I've got a whole miserable Thursday still ahead.
Bizarre indeed!
tlm: It's always a good day to catblog.
The Equuschick works at animal shelter, and would indeed *dearly* what causes people to snap like that.
Ugh, I hate seeing that. How disgusting. I mean, she's a crazy cat lady :P
From what I understand, animal hoarding is a mental illness... a variation of obsessive compulsive disorder or something. Scary.
Animal hoarding can be lumped into the rather amorphous mental illness category of OCD. This is why you almost always see the word 'crazy' prefacing animal hoarder, e.g., crazy cat lady.
I would think there's an element of "rescuing" the cute fuzzies. And then there's the narcissistic element of "if I don't do it no one will, so I must." And one thing leads to another.
But to keep the dead ones around in bins? Eeewwwwww.... The elderly lady, it sounds like dementia, but the daughter? Hmm. Downright crazy might apply...
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