How to deal with friends who shouldn't have pets?

[wolflady]

This is sort of in reference to another thread I started in Cat General called Dilema! Please Help!

I have a friend back home in Indiana who I've known since high school. To make a long story short, she has this bad habit of collecting animals. My take, is that she feels like she's doing a good thing. Her heart is in the right place...but it's not a good idea for her to have animals at all.

To make a very long story short, she's had animals taken away from her. Not just a few, but I could safely say somewhere in the range of 20 animals.
At least 6 large dogs and 14 or so cats. Plus, she's had several litters of kittens die in her care

I just don't get it. She can barely afford to support herself and her kid...let alone these poor animals. How can she feel ok about bringing more animals into her home, after so many were taken away. Personally, I was glad when all those animals were taken away, because they were so unhealthy. A person couldn't walk into her home without leaving with tons of flea bites. She would get mad at the cats for going to the bathroom on the floor, but wouldn't clean up the mess when they did. Plus....with 14 cats...and 2 litterboxes...I would be using the floor too!

Now, she's married to someone else (she was living with and engaged to a different guy at the time of the animal confiscation) and she's managed to get a couple of cats and a pitbull puppy. I can already see bad things happening here. This pitbull, I fear, is going to turn into the typical stereotype...
Anyway, she had wanted to adopt even more cats...but that is covered in my other thread.

Now, I get an email about how lonely her puppy is (duh...she shouldn't have even gotten one *sigh*) and now she's looking to adopt another dog
When does this stop? How am I supposed to help her when everything I've ever told her goes in one ear and out the other? I've given her countless amounts of information and advice when it comes to animals...yet the madness continues.

*sigh* Sorry, I just had to rant...because at this point I just have no idea what to do...