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hi, I'm new to the site and need some advice to try and help my mom, I feel so sorry for her, we've been through a lot together the past few years because of our four legged friends, I know cat hoarding is a mental problem or that's what is said but she has over 20 cats in her house at least, some of them die when they're kittens due to worms or inter-breeding or no telling what else, she's 61 and she's worked for herself since before I was born and her health is getting worse and she's slowing down as she gets older, she isn't married, it's just me and her right now, I stay with her to try and help her as much as I can but it's gotten out of hand, 2 or 3 of our neighbors call animal control on us when we let the cats go outside and they've been after her about them for 3 years, they've set up traps to catch a lot of the ones outside, most of them are gone except for a few, it's sad really, she gets attached to them when the kittens are born and won't even let anyone else adopt them, I have a few favorites that I'm fond of but the rest I want to help her find new homes for, she mainly has a lot of kittens, she's gotten 4 of her females spayed with help from her family, one of her sisters is a back stabber and calls animal control on her when she gets mad at her and she's lost one of her jobs because of them, she works for her landlords, it used to be their mother's house she used to work for her too when she was alive, the shelters where we live always say they can't take any cats, or they don't have any room for them, we'd prefer not to let animal control have them because they're known for putting them to sleep for no reason and do NOTHING to help try and find them homes, she spends $60 a week on their food and litter and has to clean up after them every day because she can't afford to buy litter every day, I don't know what to do, she won't listen to me or no one else that tries to help her, she's already had to pay a fine because of the neighbors calling animal control so much when she would let them outside, I'm worried about what's going to happen to her next, my cat almost died from Hook Worms and Anemia a couple of weeks ago, she had to have a blood transfusion to save her life, it cost me $1500 to save her, I love that cat, I don't want her to ever go through that again
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