Two Dozen Cats Abandoned In Home Facing Foreclosure

KSPR-TV in Springfield, Missouri reports:

• Twenty-five cats were left with nothing but a bowl of beans and an abandoned home more than two months ago. Finally after lots of legal red tape the Southwest Missouri Humane Society got permission to rescue most of the cats off of Farm Road 88 in northern Greene County. Several stray cats put up a fight as the Southwest Missouri Humane Society tried to rescue them from squalor. Executive Director Bonnie Miller says, "The strategy was to use their hunger." Employees placed food inside cages luring the cats inside.

Reportedly, the cats' owners moved out of state and abandoned them in the house. Without their permission or a warrant, nothing could be done to rescue the cats until a pending foreclosure action reached the stage where the bank could allow entry onto the premises to the Humane Society for the rescue For more, see Cats Rescued After Long Legal Ordeal.

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