Animal Hoarding

[BlueKota]

11. Definitely.

I hope the lady is referred for mental health treatment in addition to the criminal charges against her. Our county actually partially funds a mental health clinic, which offers a sliding fee scale based on a patient's income and access to insurance.

The county also holds free rabies clinics for dogs and cats, once a year. You have to pre-register but it's open to all county residents regardless of income. When I was young, we used to take the barn cats we could catch to get them. I also fed them dry cat food and brought them water every day. They also were free to hunt which my parents, the farmer who rented our fields, and barns, and even the neighbor's appreciated, because we rarely had mice.

With a few rare exceptions I was never usually allowed to even bring them in the house, let alone let them live in it. The only one that my Mom let be an indoor cat was one that had been born with a neurological disease,and our vet said it likely wouldn't survive being an outdoor cat.