What affects us affects cats
State investigators of Hamilton Township Animal Shelter & Adoption Center found a catalogue of two dozen deficiencies. They also discovered that the shelter killed all 46 cats recovered from a hoarder on the day they were rescued. The Township Health Official, Jeff Plunkett, and the mayor, Kelly Yaede, have defended the shelter vigorously. The …
Cat rescuers often use their hearts not their heads. Successful and sustainable cat rescue has to be run like a business. There needs to be a business-like approach and this is the difficulty because many kind people who love cats want to help but on some occasions lack the necessary business skills and end …
I’m sorry to bring you another story which might be upsetting to cat lovers or indeed anybody who cares. They come along in threes. Yes, the authorities discovered 114 cats kept in a garage. This appears to be an ordinary garage where you keep your car. Above it there is some sort of apartment …
This story comes from Gahanna, Ohio, USA. A man was living with 55 dead cats. In all there were 166 cats therefore 111 were living. I think that it is the most extraordinary example of cat hoarding that I have read about. Columbus Humane staff unsurprisingly wore protective suits when removing the 111 cats …
This must be the ultimate case of hoarding both of objects and of cats. This is truly a shocking case. It happened in the UK. The lady in question, Elizabeth Blore, 61, lived in what we call a council house which is a house owned by the local authority and which is rented to …
Another ‘house of horrors’ was uncovered in North Carolina on May 15, leading to the discovery of dead and dying animals. A total of 45 live animals were seized from the property. According to a press release, Onslow County Animals Services received an anonymous call on May 13 of possible animal cruelty at 128 …
She had 42 cats in her car. And the car is a fairly standard sized vehicle. This must be a world record if such a record could exist. This is the car: The lady is 58-year-old Kathryn St. Clare. She has been convicted in the past of being a car hoarder. She was arrested …
Frank Ancona worked as a courier and in his spare time was the imperial wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His wife, Malissa Ancona, is a cat hoarder. She is also, allegedly, a fraudster in that she used cat rescue as a means to con money out of people. …
