Right she is not providing any medical care to these cats including getting them fixed which would help this problem. She is overwhelmed but she does not seem to realize you can't treat cats like that. There is no reason for it. I haven't spoke with her enough to know if she is suffering from depression, all I know if from what I've heard is that when her daughter and son come to visit her they don't even bother walking threw the front porch; they will go around back to her door. Which has me confused that her son or daughter won’t tell her that she can’t live like that? Yet she also had the nerve to come out of her house to talk with me, walking threw the awful stench and yet holding a cigarette. How can you afford to support your drug habit while these poor cats are walking around in the own feces. It makes me so anger that people can be that oblivious.

My main concerns are of course the welfare of these cats. I have been able to remove most of the sick cats and the first batch I took to Paws even though I knew they were full but they needed medical attention and there was no way I could afford to take care of 9 of the cats myself.

I have contacted the Health Dept. of Spring Twp. which is where she lives and they said if she has trash on her porch they can't do anything about it, if it's on her lawn he could tell her to remove it but as for the cats he can't do anything about it. But I figured if he went there, which I never followed up with him to see if he did go, then she would have moved some of the stuff around her porch or by her steps but yard doesn't look any better. She does have a dog, I've never seen the condition of the dog yet, but it was barking when I was there.

No one to my knowledge has gotten involved in telling this woman she needs to remove the cats from her property or get them fixed.

I had one volunteer who took in three cats into her home and cleaned them up and she is in the process of finding the three kittens a loving home.

Unfortunately there is no financial help; I'm just using the extra time I have to call people and to see if someone is willing to help me find homes for these cats. I even told the one volunteer that if the three kittens were too much for her to handle or she needed help with vet bills to call me, because most places are willing to work out some type of payment arrangement just depending on who you see.

-Melissa