[JSteff]

That is not important, the cats are just like stuffed animals to them. There was (30years ago+), an old lady on my paper route who had a house full of them.. 50+! She had no air conditioning and in the summer the house smelled so bad I hate to even deliver the paper.. let alone collect the weekly amount!

Once a relative was there and when I asked said the cats were like her kids or stuffed animals. She would not let any of the family or friends move the cats out!

So I will go with the stuffed animals answer he gave me. I had the route for like 2 years and her house smelled worse the whole two years!

[driftless2]

"house smelled bad"

I once walked into a house where the woman of the house owned sixteen cats. The house looked immaculate....and smelled liked cat urine and disinfectant.

[driftless2]

"house smelled bad"

I once walked into a house where the woman of the house owned sixteen cats. The house looked immaculate....and smelled liked cat urine and disinfectant.

[bvw]

You remembered your childhood: That is not important, the cats are just like stuffed animals to them. There was (30years ago+), an old lady on my paper route who had a house full of them.. 50+! She had no air conditioning and in the summer the house smelled so bad I hate to even deliver the paper.. let alone collect the weekly amount!

I had three (or four when I covered for my brother) different paper routes. In one central Jersey town I had a morning paper route and an afternoon paper route, two different papers. We moved to a more urban town and there I had one afternoon route. My brothers also got routes there, and occasionally I would have to cover for them.

In the rural suburb each route was between 80 and 110 homes, mostly the same house getting both papers. Made collections easy.

In the city, the routes were smaller. In any case overall, I had three cat ladies. You are right, I hated collecting them. I fact I used a trick to get rid of one very stinky one, who was also a forever late payer. I would throw the paper just to the edge of her driveway, so she had to walk out to get it. Eventually she dropped the paper, I was so happy!

In all three cases the lots were overgrown.