Cat Count Up To 142 At NJ Mansion Bought At Foreclosure Sale For $2.6M

(revised 9-3-07)
In a story that still has legs, the Bergen Record reports:

• "Animal control officials continue to extract cats from a borough home where scores of roaming felines and the carcasses of 23 dead and bagged dogs and cats were found more than two weeks ago. "We still have cats in there," said Carol Tyler of Tyco Professional Animal Control in Midland Park, where most of the cats have been sheltered. 'There are at least four that we've seen, and there may be more. We're up to a count of 142 that were in the house so far.' [...] The home was in foreclosure and had been bought by restaurateur Michael Acciardi, 47, who lives next door and has said he bought it for $2.6 million without seeing the interior. He said he did not get a look at the inside until Aug. 23 after he returned from vacation and immediately said he wanted to cancel the deal."

For more, see Officers discover more cats hiding in Saddle River home.

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Go here for a picture of the front of what is reportedly the $2.6 million mansion.