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Purrs for rescued cats from hoarder
A local woman in Central Texas had 80 cats removed by a shelter. The
good news is that other than a bad case of ear mites and a few skinny ones, all the cats are adoptable! Please purr for these kitties to find forever homes soon. Help information at the bottom of the article. ------------------------------------------------ City seizes woman's herd of cats Kyle resident mourns loss of 'loving pets' — more than 80 cats she kept in a backyard pen. By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, April 14, 2006 KYLE — The smell from the neighbor's house was so bad that Matilde Mendoza said she couldn't let her children play in the backyard. The smell was from the cats — more than 80 of them — living in a large wire mesh pen in back of Jane Alaniz's house on Paddington Street. When an animal control officer showed up a few weeks ago, he told Alaniz that she was breaking several city ordinances, including one allowing residents to have a maximum of five pets, said Lt. Pedro Hernandez of the Kyle Police Department. Patti Rudick, executive director of the PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle, shows some of the more than 80 cats that were seized recently. After vaccines and neutering, the cats will be available for adoption. Jane Alaniz can't talk about her cats without crying. She says her pets were well cared for and she was just 'trying to help little innocent critters.' Jane Alaniz kept her cats in a 30-foot-by-30-foot enclosure in her backyard. She said she spread fresh cedar chips daily and fed the cats at least 50 cans of cat food a day, with some dry cat food. She said she would apply with the city for a special permit to keep the animals, but she never did, Hernandez said. The city seized the cats April 7, and now they are available for adoption at the PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle. Police have not decided whether to file charges against Alaniz for breaking city ordinances, Hernandez said. Alaniz, who works at the Internal Revenue Service, said she had asked animal control for an extension because she was taking care of her daughter, who is pregnant with twins and has health problems. City officials kept changing their minds about what they wanted from her, said Alaniz, who couldn't talk about her cats without crying. She now plans to resign from her job and move out of state because of the trauma of losing them, she said. "I had some of the friendliest, most loving pets, and they are trying to tell me they are neglected," Alaniz said. "I'm just somebody trying to help little innocent critters." She said she had 77 cats that lived in a 30-foot-by-30-foot, 7-foot-high pen with a table and two park benches. She spread fresh cedar chips in the pen every night and fed the cats at least 50 cans of cat food a day and dry food, she said. Some of the cats are underfed, but their biggest problem has been ear mites, said Patti Rudick, the executive director of PAWS. Some have stress-related illnesses such as diarrhea or urinary tract infections, but they are all adoptable, said Samuel Ladach-Bark, a veterinary technician at the shelter. Alaniz voluntarily gave 15 to 20 cats to the shelter after the city first contacted her but never brought the rest of them, Rudick said. "This is ridiculous," said Alaniz's daughter, Sara Alaniz, who lives with her parents. "People are trying to make my mother out to be a bad person, and she is not." Jane Alaniz, 53, said she grew up in South Texas on a farm with 23 dogs. When her mother died in 1998, Alaniz said she promised her that she would always look after homeless animals. About five to six years ago people started leaving their unwanted cats with her, and she also rescued abandoned cats from the streets, she said. Tom Alaniz, her husband and a former member of the Del Valle school board, said he and his wife always carry dog food, cat food and water in their car to help animals they see. When they moved from Austin to the Kyle house a few weeks ago, the owner in California said it was all right to have the cats as long as they were kept outside, Sara Alaniz said. Jane Alaniz said she had been planning with a pet store to put the cats up for adoption before they were seized from her. Mendoza, who lives next door, said she isn't the one who called animal control, but she's happy to have relief from the smell. "People can have one or two or three cats, but 80-something is too many," she said. A Massachusetts veterinarian who has studied people who keep large numbers of animals — called hoarders — said it not unusual to see cases in which people are keeping hundreds of cats. Dr. Gary Patronek is an assistant adjunct professor at Tufts University in Boston who established the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium in the 1990s. He said there are an estimated 3,000 cases of animal hoarding in the United States annually. It's not a well-studied issue, but many psychiatrists think animal hoarders are dealing with a lot of unresolved grief, abandonment and childhood traumas, Patronek said. Jane Alaniz said she had a happy childhood and never felt that she had too many cats. "They gave me love and respect, and they never misunderstood me," she said. How to help The PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle is looking for new homes for the seized cats as well as donations of canned cat food and kitty litter. The shelter is less than a mile off Interstate 35 at 48 RM 150 East. Shelter hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The shelter can be reached at (512) 268-1611 -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Victor Martinez wrote: A local woman in Central Texas had 80 cats removed by a shelter. The good news is that other than a bad case of ear mites and a few skinny ones, all the cats are adoptable! Please purr for these kitties to find forever homes soon. Help information at the bottom of the article. Oh, that poor woman needs counseling or *some* kind of help. She is not right. Thinking that keeping 77 cats in a small pen was acceptable. The sad thing is, she'll just collect more, she will start all over again. But as far as collector stories go, this is the least sad one I've ever read. It said they were actually all adoptable, which means they must have been fed well, and cared for at least to the best of her ability. Victor, where is Kyle? The story says it's off I-35, which runs through here--I was wondering how far south it is. Sherry |
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Victor Martinez wrote:
A local woman in Central Texas had 80 cats removed by a shelter. The good news is that other than a bad case of ear mites and a few skinny ones, all the cats are adoptable! Please purr for these kitties to find forever homes soon. Help information at the bottom of the article. snip Police have not decided whether to file charges against Alaniz for breaking city ordinances, Hernandez said. snip What good would filing charges do? A very sad case. Purrs for all the cats to find new homes and purrs for Alaniz, who obviously needs help not punishment. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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Boy, many purrs for these kitties to find loving homes. That woman
definitely needs major help. Christine "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... A local woman in Central Texas had 80 cats removed by a shelter. The good news is that other than a bad case of ear mites and a few skinny ones, all the cats are adoptable! Please purr for these kitties to find forever homes soon. Help information at the bottom of the article. ------------------------------------------------ City seizes woman's herd of cats Kyle resident mourns loss of 'loving pets' — more than 80 cats she kept in a backyard pen. By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, April 14, 2006 KYLE — The smell from the neighbor's house was so bad that Matilde Mendoza said she couldn't let her children play in the backyard. The smell was from the cats — more than 80 of them — living in a large wire mesh pen in back of Jane Alaniz's house on Paddington Street. When an animal control officer showed up a few weeks ago, he told Alaniz that she was breaking several city ordinances, including one allowing residents to have a maximum of five pets, said Lt. Pedro Hernandez of the Kyle Police Department. Patti Rudick, executive director of the PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle, shows some of the more than 80 cats that were seized recently. After vaccines and neutering, the cats will be available for adoption. Jane Alaniz can't talk about her cats without crying. She says her pets were well cared for and she was just 'trying to help little innocent critters.' Jane Alaniz kept her cats in a 30-foot-by-30-foot enclosure in her backyard. She said she spread fresh cedar chips daily and fed the cats at least 50 cans of cat food a day, with some dry cat food. She said she would apply with the city for a special permit to keep the animals, but she never did, Hernandez said. The city seized the cats April 7, and now they are available for adoption at the PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle. Police have not decided whether to file charges against Alaniz for breaking city ordinances, Hernandez said. Alaniz, who works at the Internal Revenue Service, said she had asked animal control for an extension because she was taking care of her daughter, who is pregnant with twins and has health problems. City officials kept changing their minds about what they wanted from her, said Alaniz, who couldn't talk about her cats without crying. She now plans to resign from her job and move out of state because of the trauma of losing them, she said. "I had some of the friendliest, most loving pets, and they are trying to tell me they are neglected," Alaniz said. "I'm just somebody trying to help little innocent critters." She said she had 77 cats that lived in a 30-foot-by-30-foot, 7-foot-high pen with a table and two park benches. She spread fresh cedar chips in the pen every night and fed the cats at least 50 cans of cat food a day and dry food, she said. Some of the cats are underfed, but their biggest problem has been ear mites, said Patti Rudick, the executive director of PAWS. Some have stress-related illnesses such as diarrhea or urinary tract infections, but they are all adoptable, said Samuel Ladach-Bark, a veterinary technician at the shelter. Alaniz voluntarily gave 15 to 20 cats to the shelter after the city first contacted her but never brought the rest of them, Rudick said. "This is ridiculous," said Alaniz's daughter, Sara Alaniz, who lives with her parents. "People are trying to make my mother out to be a bad person, and she is not." Jane Alaniz, 53, said she grew up in South Texas on a farm with 23 dogs. When her mother died in 1998, Alaniz said she promised her that she would always look after homeless animals. About five to six years ago people started leaving their unwanted cats with her, and she also rescued abandoned cats from the streets, she said. Tom Alaniz, her husband and a former member of the Del Valle school board, said he and his wife always carry dog food, cat food and water in their car to help animals they see. When they moved from Austin to the Kyle house a few weeks ago, the owner in California said it was all right to have the cats as long as they were kept outside, Sara Alaniz said. Jane Alaniz said she had been planning with a pet store to put the cats up for adoption before they were seized from her. Mendoza, who lives next door, said she isn't the one who called animal control, but she's happy to have relief from the smell. "People can have one or two or three cats, but 80-something is too many," she said. A Massachusetts veterinarian who has studied people who keep large numbers of animals — called hoarders — said it not unusual to see cases in which people are keeping hundreds of cats. Dr. Gary Patronek is an assistant adjunct professor at Tufts University in Boston who established the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium in the 1990s. He said there are an estimated 3,000 cases of animal hoarding in the United States annually. It's not a well-studied issue, but many psychiatrists think animal hoarders are dealing with a lot of unresolved grief, abandonment and childhood traumas, Patronek said. Jane Alaniz said she had a happy childhood and never felt that she had too many cats. "They gave me love and respect, and they never misunderstood me," she said. How to help The PAWS Shelter and Humane Society in Kyle is looking for new homes for the seized cats as well as donations of canned cat food and kitty litter. The shelter is less than a mile off Interstate 35 at 48 RM 150 East. Shelter hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The shelter can be reached at (512) 268-1611 -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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Purrs for rescued cats from hoarder
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:37:59 -0500, Victor Martinez
wrote: A local woman in Central Texas had 80 cats removed by a shelter. The good news is that other than a bad case of ear mites and a few skinny ones, all the cats are adoptable! Please purr for these kitties to find forever homes soon. Help information at the bottom of the article. She definitely had too many animals for any one person to look after, and I don't like that they were kept in a giant cage... but she must have been looking after them becuase usually animal hoarders blatantly fail their babies and they're all dying of starvation or disease... if these kitties are ALL adoptable she must have been doing at least something right! |
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On 2006-04-14, Karen AKA Kajikit penned:
She definitely had too many animals for any one person to look after, and I don't like that they were kept in a giant cage... but she must have been looking after them becuase usually animal hoarders blatantly fail their babies and they're all dying of starvation or disease... if these kitties are ALL adoptable she must have been doing at least something right! Maybe the problem was addressed before the cats were penned long enough to cause serious damage? I can only imagine the kind of social problems that one would encounter with 77 cats in that size enclosure. Oscar wouldn't even put up with one other cat in my house! -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
And they said she spread cedar chips every day -- great, but what about cleaning up the rest? I'm thinking about her pregnant daughter... being near all that cat poop. Not good! Still, I also feel more sorry for than angry at her. She did genuinely seem to love the cats, and she's obviously taken pretty good care of them. Seems she should have been allowed to keep a *few* of them, why'd they have to take them all? Joyce |
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