Yes, please report this to the SPCA or your city's animal control
organization. They can check to see if the cats are in the house
and have food and water available. They may need to have a police
escort them in, but it is their job to check for animal abuse or
neglect. Please call them ASAP!

Thanks for thinking of the cats. I already don't like your wife if
she is capable of doing such a horrible thing to pets!

This is kind of a big thing (but I'm an activist type) for after the
immidiate problem is resolved (atternery has been contacted, SPCA is on
the case, perhaps animal-neglect charges are filed, etc): Write to state
lawmakers and local news channels, and try to raise the issue of
"Divorce/Animal Abandonment" with the populace at large. Here in
Indiana, after the two IU cretins burned that cat a number of years ago,
there was a rather large public outcry, leading to animal-cruelty laws
being changed. Perhaps you could push for something similar, like
treating animal neglect in divorce custody proceedings with similar
"weight" as child neglect is.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, so take what I saw with a large grain of
salt. Just something to think about - after the cats are safe.w

Jim