WTW: Cat Blogging

May 25th, 2005 at 8:53 am by Preston Taylor Holmes

I really should do more cat blogging. All the cool bloggers do it. I mean, really, is there anything more precious than photos of cute kitties in a variety of playful poses? I can answer that for you… No, there isn’t.

Incidentally, do you always let other people answer your questions for you? Stand up for yourself for once! Get confident, stupid!

Anyway, back to cat blogging. Margaret Sue Jamel of Waukesha, Wisconsin loves cats so much that she decided she needed to keep more than 250 of them in her rental home. If only she were a blogger, she never would have run out of material!

In what authorities are calling the worst case of cat neglect ever seen in Waukesha County, a woman charged with hoarding more than 250 cats in squalor in a home in Ottawa was ordered Monday to undergo a mental competency examination.

“Cat neglect.” I believe that is punishable by death in California. If it were child neglect, she would get 30-days probation, because we all know that pets are actually more human than children.

The examination for Margaret Sue Jamel, 48, was ordered during her initial court appearance on charges that say 193 live and 65 dead cats were taken from the home by Humane Animal Welfare Society personnel and the Dousman Fire Department. The workers donned boots, rubber gloves and respirators as they went room by room through the fetid home, where several areas had wall-to-wall cat urine and feces.

Wall-to-wall urine and feces? Sounds like life on the road with a traveling rock band. Or a night at Sandy Duncan’s house.

A criminal complaint says the dead animals included both kittens and adult cats, some of which had been partially devoured by other cats.

“Horrible” is how animal caretaker Stacy Krafczyk described the 1,200-square-foot home from which she rescued cats on Friday night.

“You walk out of the house smelling like the house,” she said.

“Animal caretaker” Stacy Krafczyk did mention that she’d been waiting 7 long years for a chance to be quoted in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel adding that “there just aren’t that many opportunities for animal caretakers like myself to get the media attention we richly deserve.” Perhaps she should consider cat blogging. All the best bloggers do it.

The utility crew became alarmed after seeing numerous cats through the windows and smelling a powerful stench.

Just one window was open, and more than a dozen cats were pressed up against its screen.

When humane officers entered the home, they found a bowl of water but no food for the dozens of cats that roamed freely throughout the house, including the basement. The stench was so overpowering that even respirators were unable to prevent officers’ eyes from burning and watering as they worked amid piles of cat feces and floors soaked with urine.

Some of the cats appeared to be suffering from respiratory ailments, and at least one was either unable or unwilling to move.

Here is an artist’s rendering of Margaret Jamel’s condition once authorities finally caught up with the cat lover (and potential future cat blogger!):

Your White Trash Wednesday bloggers….

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9 Responses to “WTW: Cat Blogging”

1. Stacy Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 9:32 am

   I have two dogs in my 2,100 sq. ft. house and that’s almost too much for me.

   Maybe she burned a lot of candles to mask the smell?

2. Katie Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 10:01 am

   That’s positively disgusting. Call me a heartless bitch, but I’m not “moved” by the story, just disgusted. Wall to wall???

3. Conservative Thinking Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 10:52 am

   Temporary Lapse of Control
   As many of you may already know I’m moving to Denver next week (if you’re in Denver drop me a line). Tomorrow starts the moving process and today starts the hectic schedule of things to do. Needless to say I…

4. protein wisdom Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 11:04 am

   I'll say it: NOBODY takes a shot a gratuitous shot at Sandy Duncan without being called out for being the BASTARD he is.
   Bastard.*

5. Rob Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 11:28 am

   Cat blogging? Feh. All the really cool bloggers do babe blogging.

6. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 11:39 am

   Katie, surely you don’t assume I was moved by the story. You know me better than that.

   And Rob, babe blogging is where it’s at. That’s why you rule and the others drool.

   Cat blogging is for babbling oddballs with repressed homosexual tendencies. (No offense, cat bloggers!)

7. Hector Vex Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm

   Cat blogging is for uncreative retards. I prefer beer blogging.

   If you haven’t noticed, I’ve thrown my hat back into the White Trash Wednesday ring…

8. Katie Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 4:10 pm

   Beer blogging…that’s an idea I can get behind. I’ve always wondered how a drunk post would look in the morning!

9. Jeremy Says:
   May 25th, 2005 at 7:02 pm

   How in the hell have I missed Babe Blog Fridays??? Wow…just wow.