poor kitties in Fairfax County
Today I read sad news about our poor cousins in a house on Ludgate Drive in Fairfax County (in a neighbourhood behind George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation).
An old lady, Mrs Ruth Knueven, 82 years old, who lives there had 306 cats. After neighbours complained of the smell, police went to visit and discovered 273 of the cats. 86 of them were already dead. They were removed. On another later visit, another 32 (plus another dead) were discovered and also removed.
Of the 219 still alive, all of them were euthanized except for eight because they were undomesticated and sick. The authorities couldn't risk them infecting the other animals at the county shelter.
The lady was charged with three misdemeanor counts of failing to care for her pets.
This lady did not love cats. If a person loves cats, they would care for them and do anything for them, as most of my feline friends on Catster would know.
No, this lady collected them. She needs psychiatric help. It is an obsessive compulsive behaviour of sorts. A real cat lover knows that we cats are territorial and love our spaces. We will only share our space with a limited number of adopted brothers and sisters.
If you know of any neighbours with too many cats, ask your human to investigate, for the sake of our feline cousins.
Stories like this make us thankful that we adopted the right human(s) who are loving and caring.
211 Cats From Home In Fairfax Euthanized from Washington Post
Fairfax County Animal Shelter
In other news (good news), my friend Camilla mentioned that a baby panda has been born at Washington Zoo. This is amazing news. You can read more about this in Camilla's diary entry of 12 July.
In 1999, my human visited Hsing Hsing, who was sick then. The news of Hsing Hsing's death not long after upset my human. I hope he goes to visit the new pandas there, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, soon as they are only on loan from China for a very short time. We hope that the cub survives the next couple of months which is a critical time.
*Please do visit Cooper and Camilla who are the other two members of the Catster CKC Triumvirate.
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Today was another cold day. I am making up for the cold day by sitting on my human as often as I can. I love it when he rubs his chin on the top of my head.
keisercat@wildmail.com
An old lady, Mrs Ruth Knueven, 82 years old, who lives there had 306 cats. After neighbours complained of the smell, police went to visit and discovered 273 of the cats. 86 of them were already dead. They were removed. On another later visit, another 32 (plus another dead) were discovered and also removed.
Of the 219 still alive, all of them were euthanized except for eight because they were undomesticated and sick. The authorities couldn't risk them infecting the other animals at the county shelter.
The lady was charged with three misdemeanor counts of failing to care for her pets.
This lady did not love cats. If a person loves cats, they would care for them and do anything for them, as most of my feline friends on Catster would know.
No, this lady collected them. She needs psychiatric help. It is an obsessive compulsive behaviour of sorts. A real cat lover knows that we cats are territorial and love our spaces. We will only share our space with a limited number of adopted brothers and sisters.
If you know of any neighbours with too many cats, ask your human to investigate, for the sake of our feline cousins.
Stories like this make us thankful that we adopted the right human(s) who are loving and caring.
211 Cats From Home In Fairfax Euthanized from Washington Post
Fairfax County Animal Shelter
In other news (good news), my friend Camilla mentioned that a baby panda has been born at Washington Zoo. This is amazing news. You can read more about this in Camilla's diary entry of 12 July.
In 1999, my human visited Hsing Hsing, who was sick then. The news of Hsing Hsing's death not long after upset my human. I hope he goes to visit the new pandas there, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, soon as they are only on loan from China for a very short time. We hope that the cub survives the next couple of months which is a critical time.
*Please do visit Cooper and Camilla who are the other two members of the Catster CKC Triumvirate.
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
Today was another cold day. I am making up for the cold day by sitting on my human as often as I can. I love it when he rubs his chin on the top of my head.
keisercat@wildmail.com
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