Crazy Cat Lady

Today I came home from work and this truck was parked in front of our condo. You can imagine my thought process, wondering what had gone wrong. Was there a crime on our block?? This was straight out of Law & Order SVU one of my favorite shows.

I watched the truck for awhile but then curiosity got the best of me and I decided to just go down and talk to the driver and see what was up. I pretended to be worried about my building, wondering if anyone was hurt. I honestly didn't think that was the case because there are only John and myself and the girls down stairs from us in the whole building. He was very nice in obliging my nosey-ness. He said that they were there to clean the house next door.

Now for anyone who has been to our place you know that we live next to a crazy cat lady. Her house is huge, probably a million dollar home just because of the size of the lot-but it is extremely run down. In the windows you can always see cats, I think the most I ever counted at one time was about 15, but they all look the same so it was hard to know how many were really in there.

Over the last few days we have noticed less cats in the windows. Yesterday there was a huge dumpster out in front of the building and someone came with a big cage and took some cats away, but I couldn't see all of what was going on or how many cats there were. Later that night Cat Lady and some guys threw about 4 huge litter boxes into the dumpster.

So that brings us to today and the Aftermath people. He said that someone had called and complained about the number of cats she had, and that she had to get rid of them. Then this company was called in to clean up. He said that she had anywhere between 120-150 cats in the house!!! Can you even imagine?! We knew she had a lot of cats but that is truly insane. He said that the cleaning process was unbelievable, and that you couldn't imagine what the inside of that house was like. They had to scrape the floors and he said it was just layer after layer. So gross!

The sad thing is that most of the cats probably went to a shelter and I know that they would have been completely overwhelmed by that number of cats. I am sure they were put to sleep. For a lady who obviously loved cats, she really was not doing them a service by keeping them that way.

Watching these guys get ready to go into the house was really interesting to see. They put on about 5 pairs of latex gloves, put on not 1 but 2 haz-mat suits, taped around their ankles and wrists with packing tape, and wore masks. They looked pretty serious. Sorry for the poor quality of my pictures.

Just seeing how they get all bundled up makes me think about what they do to clean up real crime scenes. Man that job would suck. Do you think these guys make a lot of money? I sure hope so.