1. 81 cats found, taken from house Cats with different colours
Ex-nun, nurse said they'd hoped to find homes for them all shapes and sizes
Two women who apparently thought they could find homes for stray cats ended up living with 81 felines in a San
Carlos home reeking of urine and feces, animal control officers discovered Friday.
Quite old, gray hair, smell of cats.
Maybe the two women died and When the two women were with the cats.
the cats had to look after The location is an apartment in the city or
themselves. an old house in a suburban area.
The cats were remarkably well-fed, and most appeared to be in good health, said Scott Delucchi of the Peninsula
Humane Society. But the conditions inside the home were so bad that the health department ruled it unfit for
habitation, and the landlord says it will cost thousands of dollars to repair the damage.
"In all of our 25 years of renting -- we've had up to 250 units or thereabouts -- we have never experienced anything
like this,'' said the landlord, who asked to be identified only as Joe, as he stood outside the home on the 1200 block
of Alameda de las Pulgas.
Joe is the evil landlord who tries to get rid of the cats.
Joe= quite large, white, short hair, eats a lot, stain on
his white polo and he wears jeans.
He said the two tenants, whom he declined to name, were an ex-nun and a nurse in their 60s and 70s. They began
renting the home in May.
Supports evil Joe idea no concern for cats
"They appeared so well-qualified (as tenants) and totally pleasant -- and they totally snookered us,'' he said.
It is not known whether either woman will face criminal charges. Debi Denardi, one of four humane society officers
who donned masks and ventured inside the home to rescue the cats, said the district attorney would eventually make
that decision.
Debi is the women who rescued the
cats. In the end of my story she looks
after the cats and creates a cat pen.
She cares about the cats safety and
health.
Denardi said the smell of ammonia from the animal waste was overpowering and that cats had been found in every
nook and cranny of the 1,100-square foot, two-bedroom home.
"They were under the couches, on top of the shelves, and there was feces everywhere,'' she said.
The woman who was home at the time seemed genuinely contrite about the mess and told the officers that she had
been trying to find homes for the cats, but realized she had gotten in over her head, Denardi said.
Debi sympathised with the two ladies and showed that she
cared by telling their story.
"One cat became 10, and 10 became 20, and 20 became 81,'' Denardi said.
Joe’s henchmen
Authorities became aware of the situation when a carpet-cleaning company that had been called to the house Friday
morning made a report to police.
The landlord, however, said he had gotten an inkling something was wrong last week when he accompanied a
handyman to the property to trim a mulberry tree and smelled something awful. When he looked through a kitchen
window, he saw several cats, even though the rental agreement stated the tenants were allowed only two.
Joe only cares about his money
He said he had confronted one of the women and insisted that they clean up the mess immediately. She told him that
the situation had gotten out of hand because her roommate had been ill and unable to care for the animals.
Supports idea of both women dying in my story
The landlord said he had suspected there might be as many as two dozen cats on the premises, and was shocked to
learn the grand total was 81.
2. Delucchi said it was believed to be the largest case of cat hoarding on the Peninsula in at least 25 years.
The cats, most of which appeared well-socialized, would be checked out by a veterinarian in the coming days,
Delucchi said, and would be available to good homes shortly.