Sixty-Seven Dead Cats Found in Refrigerator

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[ambrose]

Sixty-Seven Dead Cats Found in Refrigerator in Cooper City Home
The Associated Press
Published: Dec 16, 2001

COOPER CITY, Fla. (AP) - A woman was arrested Sunday on animal abandonment charges after police found 67 dead kittens and cats inside a refrigerator of the woman's unoccupied home.

Police responded to neighbors' complaints of foul order coming from the home of Audrey Jean Weed, 50.

Officers found 24 cats and one dog loose in the home. They also discovered litter boxes overflowing with feces and 31 dead kittens and 36 dead cats in a refrigerator and freezer. Some were wrapped in bags.

"It was foul, believe me," said Cooper City Police Capt. Marvin E. Stoner Jr.

Maureen Darley, a Broward County animal care officer, said the animals were very thin, and some appeared to be starving.

Weed was charged with 92 counts of animal abandonment.

Stoner said Weed did not live at the house, but was using it as an "animal retreat."

Weed told authorities she had been having personal problems that kept her from attending to the animals, Darley said.

Police were investigating how the animals died.

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[Tijeras_Slim]

Paging Tabitha Soren...

[riley1992]

Stoner said Weed did not live at the house

Hmmmmmmmmm.....

[TADSLOS]

Guess the cat's out of the bag now...

[billorites]

"Sixty-Seven Dead Cats Found in Refrigerator in Cooper City Home "</>

The other white meat?

[stboz]

Mmmmmmm! Tamales!!!!!!

[dead]

See what happens when you mess with Weed, kittys?

[birbear]

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place I go to every day at noon.
They can feed you can and you'd never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys
They fry it real crisp in dough.


Seriously though...that's one sick person who really needs to be locked up for a long long long time.

[meandog]

"It was foul, believe me," said Cooper City Police Capt. Marvin E. Stoner Jr.

I was going to make a remark about Hillary and asking Bill about the moniker for a cold dead feline...but knew it would never make it past the FReep police for polite policy!

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

After all the hate mail I got for my "The only good cat, is a dead cat" comment,
I sure hope you got your flame proof undies on!
:~D

[JBBooks]

What do you call 67 dead cats in a refrigerator?

A good start?

Woof,

Fred the dog.

[patriot_wes]

A woman was arrested Sunday on animal abandonment charges after police found 67 dead kittens and cats inside a refrigerator of the woman's unoccupied home.

I didn't abandon no kitties, I knowd right where they was.......

[rintense]

Lock her up and throw away the key. Simply just sick and wrong.

[HighWheeler]

Maureen Darley, a Broward County animal care officer..

This is the same place in Floriduh that all the ballot tampering, military busting, and pregnant chads were coming from a year ago.

What can be done about this place? Is this place a beacon for idiots?

[WhiskeyPapa]

This isn't very funny, people.

Walt

[Phantom Lord]

Cat people are EVIL!

Ever heard of a "crazy dog lady"? No. But you often hear of "crazy cat" ladies.

[dead]

Stoner said Weed did not live at the house

With all this talk of Stoner and Weed, I thought you guys shouldn't be left out.

[JBBooks]

They was some cool cats!

[Happygal]

I found this at the back of my refrigerator! *L*

[wewillnotfail]

Somebody start the Tabitha clock

[paul51]

Probably didn't have the temp set low enough.

[Jack Wilson]

Sounds like they found 67 more votes for Gore!

[dead]

Cat people are EVIL!

Every single liberal college professor in America owns a cat.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Shucks, thats nothin', I was in a house with over 160 cats. There were dead cats decomposing into the carpet, cats eating dead cats, cats falling over dead as we stood in the house and mountains of cat feces and urine all over the place.

All the surviving cats were destroyed. An elderly lady was living in the house, how she was breathing the air in there was beyond me. It was hot in there and she was walking around in a large coat, hat and rubber boots.

The house had to be torn down. I made the front page of the Plain Dealer that day, escorting the old woman out. She said I was a devil.

[SarahW]

What happened to the cats:

[stainlessbanner]

"This is Bob Barker for the Price is Right, reminding you to help control the pet population.
Have your Pet Spade or Neutered."

[beowolf]

LOL!!! Funny as hell!-)

[sweetliberty]

Floriduh huh? Could be that she was gearing up for the next election. Was she a member of an election board.

[toenail]

4000 preborn babies in the U.S. will be dead by the end of today. They'll be put in specimen jars, to be discarded or experimented on. This process will be repeated tomorrow. And the next day. And the next.

Who cares about some f***ing cats?

[Great Dane]

Somehow a subject like this, seem to trigger comedy in some people.

I agree it isn't funny.

[Romulus]

It was foul, believe me,..."

I thought it was felines.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Reminds me of another story, a guy I got on with went one time with another cop to check the welfare of a man who had not been seen in awhile.

After they got in the house they decided to check the basement first. The electricity was not working so they were in the basement with flashlights.

As they were standing there my buddy felt something dripping on him. He didnt think too much of it and they continued to search the house, going to the kitchen upstairs.

They found the guy dead on the kitchen floor decomposing. His dogs had eaten a good portion of his corpse. His body fluids were oozing out onto the floor and dripping down, through the kitchen floor, into the basement and onto my buddy.

Yummy.

[thusevertotyrants]

Spade? As in I (spade) my cat, I (heart) my wife, and I wanna (club) my mother in law?

[Great Dane]

Ever heard of a "crazy dog lady"? No. But you often hear of "crazy cat" ladies.

Yes we have, but it's called puppy-mills, and are not any better.

[newgeezer]

Lock her up and throw away the key. Simply just sick and wrong.

Sick and wrong? Absolutely. Incarceration? Oh, puh-leeze. For life, yet? That's even more sick and wrong.

[Fredgoblu]

"It was foul, believe me,"

She should've used Ziplock Sta-Fresh bags!

[Great Dane]

how she was breathing the air in there was beyond me.

And we worry about second hand smoke!!

[Fredgoblu]

67 dead kittens and cats inside a refrigerator

Leftovers, again?!?!

[bluefish]

Funny, I grew up with a CAT named Fred!

[stainlessbanner]

I don't know how to spell spade, but I can sure play some cards!
(Besides, it's Bob Barker's quote, not mine)

[geaux]

Weed told authorities she had been having personal problems

Ya think?

[newgeezer]

Every single liberal college professor in America owns a cat.

Perhaps but, I know for a fact that not all the married ones do.

[g'nad]

So what's the problem here?...

[ozzymandus]

Sounds like a Vietnamese restaurant.

[biblewonk]

Stoner and Weed. Are these names for real.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Was this supposed to be the feel-good Christmas story for today???

[thusevertotyrants]

I had this great pic of Barker (staring at this chicks with just GIGANTIC hooters) but I cant find the link. Rats

[biblewonk]

So many cats, so few recipes.

[AStack75]

Bump