Cats & women...strange thing. I watched a perfectly solid, middle-aged women go from an attractive & vivacious professional to a shabby, run-down cat-lady with 40+ cats inside & outside her home within 2 or 3 years. spent all her time in money caring & feeding them.
It was a sad thing to watch.
It is sad that she let herself go.
But many times people like cats and dogs, because the animals are more grateful than many people.
Cats have diseases that cause people to go insane.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/
A parasite found in cat feces has been linked with psychosis, schizophrenia, and bipolar disease. ... But some people, men and women, can go from obsession to madness.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/2612
I'm going to guess that she had no children and that she was probably satisfying her need to raise children with cats.
I'm fond of animals and I believe they need to be treated with respect and compassion. However people who call their pets “fur babies” and are neglecting the human drive for a family of their own need psychological counseling.
Sounds like my niece. She is 43 and her 12 year old daughter and her cats are her life. I see her, someday, becoming that shabby rundown cat lady when her daughter grows up and moves out.
Mental illness caused by toxoplasmosis. T gondii parasite from cat feces.