I despise crazy cat ladies. They are not nice neighbors.
It's one thing to feed your own cats. Feeding feral cats is a bad idea.
Cat ladies very often have Cat Lady Disease: Toxoplasmosis. Truly a scary
disease because it takes over your brain. This disease actually compels you
to render service to cats.
Not as bad as these:
Margaret and Marjorie Barthel, keepers of The Rat House Of The Palisades
To the dismay of courtroom journalists, Denham vs. Barthel has been settled out of court. Instead, we can now only guess how jurors would have reacted to the macabre tale of Pacific Palisades homeownership gone really wrong.Within the first full day of moving into their $1.8 million Pacific Palisades home last October, Scott and Elizabeth Denham realized that they had a rat problem. Within a week they realized their neighbors had a rat problem, too. Then the couple discovered that the neighbors — 78-year-old twin sisters Margaret and Marjorie Barthel — had been purposefully and lovingly feeding rats, nurturing an exponentially multiplying population of rats on the Westside, which experts believe ranged from tens of thousands to as many as a half-million of the furry creatures.
The Denhams soon also learned that Los Angeles County’s Health Department had known about the rat infestation for years and had no plans to end the bizarre, health-threatening situation — even after vermin inspectors spotted rats roaming freely inside the reclusive twins’ home in the ritzy beachside suburb. In fact, as L.A. Weekly reported in “Rathouse of the Palisades,” the rats had tunneled their way through the floors of almost every room in the sisters’ home and had even hollowed out their furniture. Scott Denham, who filed his lawsuit against the sisters late last year and sought a permanent injunction against their rat-feeding ways, tells the Weekly, “All [the injunction] says is you have to keep your property rat-free. For most people, that’s pretty basic. We didn’t want to give up until we got to that point.”
That's excerpted from the story at the link.
Not crazy cat ladies. Crazy rat ladies.
She’s an old woman most likely a widow. All her kids grown and gone. She probably only has her cats for company.
You DESPISE them? Bet they despised you first.