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An email was forwarded to me by a friend who is involved in wildlife rescue work.
The email is rather long, so I will only copy bits of it here in blue.
A hunched-back old lady in her 70s are hoarding about 30 cats and 2 dogs in her 3 room HDB flat. Her kids have abandoned her because they could not deal with the sight of her living condition. The flat hasn't been cleaned in 4 years. It's smelly, dirty and there are cat faeces and urine everywhere. The walls are blackened with stain and the wall crevices are breeding cockroaches and all kinds of household pests. The place is littered with soiled newspapers, decomposed raw chicken heads (cats were fed raw chicken heads) and maggots. Lots and lots of maggots and cockroaches!
The cats are all terrified ! and cowering in corners and under old furniture because they probably hasn't seen daylight in eternity. They are not sterilised, most are sick and infected because of the contaminated environment. Kittens are dying everywhere. We found a dozen of kittens with serious eye infection but only managed to smuggle 2 to the vet. One little persian baby has lost her eyeball, which was protruded about 1 cm out of her eye socket.
Another kitten has 2 protruding eyeballs from her eye sockets, and was bleeding but the old lady refused to let me take her to the vet. She ties the cats and kittens in bundles to tables and chairs so that they don't run far.
The dog, Mei Mei, is tied to the bed permanently. Only once a week, when the volunteer s go down to clean the place, then will Mei Mei get to run around freely.
I am so MAD right now!
The authorities apparently cannot do anything because the old woman threatens to kill herself if anyone takes her animals away, even if its for a trip to the vet... Its ridiculous!
Even though Lynn and her friends are doing a good deed by helping the old lady, the thing that really gets me is that they are actually going to RETURN animals who cannot be fostered out to the old lady.
This lady is obviously not in the right mental and physical health to take care of even one animal, let alone 30 cats and 2 dogs! Just for your info, a 3-room HDB (government-built) flat is a tiny tiny space. A family of 4 humans would already find it a squeeze.
Here's the link to Lynn's blog, where she documents in more details her encounter with the old lady and the place she stays in. Also, there are some horrendous pictures in there. My heart aches for the poor Persian kitten. http://babywail.multiply.com/journal...ell_and_Back..
The email is rather long, so I will only copy bits of it here in blue.
A hunched-back old lady in her 70s are hoarding about 30 cats and 2 dogs in her 3 room HDB flat. Her kids have abandoned her because they could not deal with the sight of her living condition. The flat hasn't been cleaned in 4 years. It's smelly, dirty and there are cat faeces and urine everywhere. The walls are blackened with stain and the wall crevices are breeding cockroaches and all kinds of household pests. The place is littered with soiled newspapers, decomposed raw chicken heads (cats were fed raw chicken heads) and maggots. Lots and lots of maggots and cockroaches!
The cats are all terrified ! and cowering in corners and under old furniture because they probably hasn't seen daylight in eternity. They are not sterilised, most are sick and infected because of the contaminated environment. Kittens are dying everywhere. We found a dozen of kittens with serious eye infection but only managed to smuggle 2 to the vet. One little persian baby has lost her eyeball, which was protruded about 1 cm out of her eye socket.
Another kitten has 2 protruding eyeballs from her eye sockets, and was bleeding but the old lady refused to let me take her to the vet. She ties the cats and kittens in bundles to tables and chairs so that they don't run far.
The dog, Mei Mei, is tied to the bed permanently. Only once a week, when the volunteer s go down to clean the place, then will Mei Mei get to run around freely.
I am so MAD right now!
The authorities apparently cannot do anything because the old woman threatens to kill herself if anyone takes her animals away, even if its for a trip to the vet... Its ridiculous!
Even though Lynn and her friends are doing a good deed by helping the old lady, the thing that really gets me is that they are actually going to RETURN animals who cannot be fostered out to the old lady.
This lady is obviously not in the right mental and physical health to take care of even one animal, let alone 30 cats and 2 dogs! Just for your info, a 3-room HDB (government-built) flat is a tiny tiny space. A family of 4 humans would already find it a squeeze.
Here's the link to Lynn's blog, where she documents in more details her encounter with the old lady and the place she stays in. Also, there are some horrendous pictures in there. My heart aches for the poor Persian kitten. http://babywail.multiply.com/journal...ell_and_Back..