I'm sure I am not alone on this one, every kid must have grown up with a cat lady in the neighborhood. My personal childhood crazy cat woman was also a dog napper. I had this dog , collie mix named Frisky, and the crazy woman who lived a few doors up kept stealing him. She would open our gate and coax Frisky out of our back yard. She must have done it a half dozen times. In addition to being a dog napper, and crazy as a shit house rat, she collected cats. I remember the noise that emanated through my bedroom window in the spring and summer. Cats in heat make some spooky noises, especially if you are 6 or 7. I was convinced she was a witch, and most likely eating children, hence the screams. Too many Hansel and Gretal type fairy tales can really screw a kid up.
So this story on MSN reminded me of my own Cat Lady. This woman had 117 cats, not all alive, one raccoon and one rabbit. She gets pinched for shoplifting, cat food. The cops said she smelled like cat piss, go figure. I'm less concerned that she was crazy enough to have 117 cats running loose in her house, and more intrigued by the addition to her cat clan, of one pet coon and a rabbit. I always wanted a raccoon, a monkey or a skunk, but I had enough sanity to realize that they probably wouldn't make the greatest pets. The rabbit must have felt like his ticket could get punched any second.
** The picture is from Russia, where a woman has 130 cats in an amazingly clean room.****
