SOUTH FLORIDA, USA – NEWS AND COMMENT: If you don’t mind, I won’t go onto great detail but Cheryn Smilen, 56, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after she starved cats that she had hoarded in her small apartment. She was a self-style cat rescuer. In truth she was a cruel cat ‘murderer’. As …
NEWS AND VIEWS-FORT LAUDERDALE SOUTH FLORIDA, USA: Michelle Toulouse, 36, a South Florida woman was allegedly stealing cats and money from Saving Sage Animal Rescue, as an employee, and then hoarding those cats to the point that she had acquired more than 50 in her apartment at the time she was found out. The …
There is a story today from Massachusetts, USA which convinces me that if a person wants to keep a large number of cats in their home a license should be mandatory. I have set the limit at 6 max. but it could a number between 5 and 10 ,I think. In the story a …
When I saw this photograph of a cat hoarding woman living in Waukegan, Illinois, USA, I thought that it was a classic; an unfortunate classic because people who love cats do not want to see images of classic hoarders on the Internet. The reason is because cat haters latch onto the pictures and use …
The home was standing on the 300 block of Greenwood Street in the West Side of Youngstown, Ohio, USA. It was the home of a cat hoarder in which almost a hundred cats lived together with a large population of rats apparently. It has been demolished because it became uninhabitable and I presume had …
Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) provide both the care for the rescued cats, the photography and the collage on their Facebook page, which I think is excellent despite the subject matter being depressing. I am sorry for this aspect of the photography. The collage does, though, bring home to us how some people end up …
Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA – News/opinion story: Damon Fields has the behavioural symptoms of a cat hoarder. In November 2019, he had 16 cats and a home that reportedly reeked so badly of pee investigators had to put on masks before entering. Animal Control had to avoid a large amount of cat …
This intriguing cat story can be summarised quite succinctly (cf. the original story). Zack Whedon bought a house in Highland Park, Los Angeles. The house had been upgraded by a developer who had bought the property from the executors of the will of cat hoarding lady who had died at the property. Whedon had …
