About 30 kittens have been removed from the home of a couple who had more than 100 cats living, breeding and running wild in their house. Gloria Davis, 68, said she has loved animals her entire life and started out taking in a few stray kittens. Their numbers grew and grew.
The city cited Davis and her husband, Robert, several months ago for the feline frenzy. "I really didn't plan on having all these," she said. "They have gotten out of hand, and I am the first to admit it."
Cathy Brand, of the Cat Woman Shelter, a cageless Sarasota facility, was asked by city inspectors to visit the home and help the couple.
Upon arriving Monday, Brand and her helpers found the stove top and other surfaces covered with cat feces and urine. Cats were living in the mattress and box springs of the couple's bed and under papers on the floor of a closet.
The cat activists took many of the animals and plan to return to the home for others. They will need to use traps to capture many of the cats, which have run untamed through the house since being born.
Davis said it has become harder for her to handle the cats. She works part time and cares for her 70-year-old husband, who has health problems.
"I did plan on getting rid of them," she said. "It's better for us health-wise." Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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