A couple weeks ago my neighbor decided to move away from his home. Upon leaving, my family and I both noticed cats stranded in the house that he had moved from. Three cats to be exact. We gave it some time to see if the previous owner would return to get his animals. No such luck. As the days got longer and the heat got worse we started to fear for the animals because of not seeing them in the window until about 2 days ago. Peering out our kitchen window that happens to look straight into the neighbors window we seen another cat. What did I do? I tried getting a-hold of the Dog Warden. Tried several times to reach him, but not luck until we talked to someone that knew the warden personally.
He showed up at the house today to inspect. Together we seen 3 cats in the house just by peeking through the window. He was unable to do much help today. Instead he put a notice on the door and said he will return tomorrow to see if the notice is still there.. From there he will be locating the previous tenant who just so happened to move to Granville. The house however has been foreclosed.
Later after the warden left, my wife heard some glass shatter. It sounded like it came from upstairs in our own house. It was not. It just so happens somebody in our neighborhood broke a window to the house next door so that the cats may get out and get some food. Neighbors from all up and down the street started bringing cat food, sliced deli meat, water, all kinds of things to feed these helpless starving cats. What we didn't know was that the house was inhabited by so much more than we knew of.
I myself went next door to take a peak in the window. Being an animal lover myself, I was shocked by what i saw. Inside the house was mounds and mounds of trash strewn about. Animal feces everywhere. It was heart breaking to see animals being closed up inside and forced to live in such an environment like that. So a few of us opened another window, while one climbed inside and opened the door. 2 of us walked inside the building clinching our hands over our mouth and nose. The smell was unbearable. The filth was atrocious. The guy lived there for several years, and never took out the trash. It just piled up in the house. We Examined every bit of the house, opening doors, finding more and more cats everywhere. Upon going upstairs, there was more trash and feces. Doors closed shut. We opened them to only find more cats. Very heart breaking.
Now that I have painted you a picture of how it looked, The heart breaking part is that the ASPCA said they could not do anything about it. The neighbor called and complained, and that was all they had to tell her. "sorry ma'am, there is nothing we can do about it".. Now.. tell me something. We all watch the news and hear about how the ASPCA rescues animals living in bad conditions, ALL kinds of animals, but yet, why can't they rescue these animals? Does there have to be a dog involved in order to get some rescuing?
If you ask me, The ASPCA needs to step up their game and do what they were meant to do, and save "ALL" animals.
btw. 15+ cats were found in the house.
---Nik
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***UPDATE***
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I did However take some pictures of the place.. and here they are.....
