Two Men, A Not So Little Lady, And 134 Cats

q103albany.com ^ | April 2, 2012 | BJ Ragone

[Free ThinkerNY]

What do you get when you combine three adults and 134 cats in a Halfmoon trailer? We aren’t sure, but it can’t smell very good. Three people were arrested on Monday after state police found 134 cats in their trailer.

I know, is anyone surprised they lived in a trailer? You have to feel bad for the animals though. Neighbors said that the cats weren’t only inside, but they were also living under and outside of the trailer as well. Apparently they didn’t get the memo that there was no more room at the Inn.

As fun as it would be to just poke fun at this family that looks like they jumped off of a circus train, unfortunately the story takes a serious turn. According to neighbors, ‘cat hoarding’ can be a serious problem.

The three people, Arthur C. Millard, Earl J. Millard, and Mary A. Ryan have been charged with mistreating the animals and are in some serious trouble. According to the original CBS6 story, the investigation began a month ago, and the people would scoop up stray cats from all over the area and take them in. Maybe their hearts were in the right place, but it has come back to bite (or scratch) them.

[sauropod]

Shoot me now.

[a fool in paradise]

Marty Feldman’s kid is up to no good.

[Doomonyou]

The crazy aunt, uncle and cousin! A trifecta!

[mardi59]

134 cats? The trailer had to be one giant litter box. PU!

My Maine Coon Hannah Leigh has to have her box cleaned twice a day. It’s like cleaning after a large dog. Poop patrol is wearing me out.

[Cicero]

Did they ask the cats what they thought about it? If they were living “under and outside the trailer,” maybe they actually enjoyed the company. You can have quite a party with 133 other cats.

Party poopers.

[3D-JOY]

I am sitting here thinking...when have we seen 3 line-up photos where the people look so clean?

Now what their eyes show is another matter!

I bet there is more to this story.

[muir_redwoods]

They can vote

[GladesGuru]

“Shoot me now.”

Nope!

Shoot the cats. A brick of .22 ammo will cost about $20 at Wally World. Or the China Moon Cafe might make a deal.

Google “There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon”, Silverstein.

[Lauren BaRecall]

It looks like a three person cult of some sort, and the cats are along for the ride.

[Lauren BaRecall]

They voted for GWB because they thought it was “No cat left behind.”

[Slings and Arrows]

Marty Feldman’s kid is up to no good.

Leatherface couldn't make it for the family photo.

[null and void]

It looks like a three person cult of some sort, and the cats are along for the ride the gods, again.

There. Fixed...

[martin_fierro]

AS A MATTER OF FACT,

YES, I AM A WIZARD

[Slings and Arrows]

So is that Crabbe or Goyle?

[chris37]

I...wait.

[Viking2002]

The only reason I haven't kicked my neighbor's cats in the ass yet is because they use my squash patch as a sandbox, and I forgot to compost over the winter. That, and they're keeping the squirrels away from my strawberry patch and blueberry bushes this year. Damned tree rats de-berried everything in the planter bed last year. Cats are like Ron Paul supporters: loopy, intermittently pissy loners with no game plan who can be useful idiots at the right moment. At least they crap in the garden and not the swimming pool.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[shibumi]

Somehow you know, down deep in your heart, that the “family” here has a blog.

Which one is the pimp?

Who writes the “articles?”

[GeronL]

does that dude have a glass eye?

[baddog 219]

HOLY CRAP! I saw this picture and nearly laughed myself to death.Crap! They're some kind of mutant pod people from outer space..... To much inbreeding.