[rnnw62]

You would darn well have to be mentally ill to not only put
the animals through that but also yourself. Once when I
lived back in Minnesota there was a woman that everyone
called the cat lady because she always drove around with
cats in her car. What people didn't know was that the reason
the cats were in her car was because she was basically
collecting them. Her family was very wealthy and she lived
in a brand new home in a very well to do section of town
and you guessed it...it was infested with hundreds of cats.
She even had big tree limbs scattered in her home for them
to play on. The smell of her home became obvious to her
neighbors and when they looked through her wondow they
were horrified at what they saw. Cats everywhere! By the
time someone stepped in and investigated it was to the
point that the cats were eating each other to stay alive.
It was so sad.....and to top it all off this woman was a
cook in a restaurant!! Her punishment was very light in
comparison to the suffering she caused. I think all they
really did to her was told her she couldn't own animals
anymore. And yes, she was deemed as being mentally ill.