Nearly two dozen cats seized from a Md. home, then euthanized touches off a furor Renetta DeBlase always let her 28 cats roam her old red-brick house in Maryland. The 76-year-old retired book editor didn’t mind the smell of cat urine or the expense of caring for so many animals. Then one cold night this month, her radiator broke and water gushed, flooding the Hyattsville home. She called the fire department for help. When firefighters rushed in to turn off the water, they saw the cats and reported the house to Prince George’s County animal control. A few days later, animal control officers went to DeBlase’s home and removed 23 cats that a county official said were living in “deplorable conditions.” Twenty-two of those cats were euthanized, setting off a furor that has pitted DeBlase and her allies in the cat rescue community against county officials who described the felines as “aggressive and totally unsocialized.”
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:56:37 +0000
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