(11-29-2021, 12:27 PM)Mikey Wrote:

(11-28-2021, 09:16 AM)RicoTx Wrote: My question is, how do you know if you have 1000 cats?  How do you count them accurately?

good gravy, this takes me back to a job painting a house of one of those animal hoarders, she had ten or so cats in the house, several dogs, and I dunno how often any of them were allowed outside the doors. IIRC the boss said that inside the house was a nightmare, and usually the basement ends up knee-deep in excrement, carcasses, or worse.

Mid summer, sweltering sun, on a ladder about 25 feet off the ground. I'm next to a second-story window, left slightly open to allow some ventilation. The ammonia stench nearly knocked me off the ladder.

Sweet mercy, I can't imagine multiplying that 100-fold. I won't be eating lunch today, nope.

So, this is going away from the theme of the thread, however....

My best friend in high school had parents that were hoarders before it had a name.

Newspapers that were years old stacked everywhere.  The back yard was filled with anything that you could imagine.  It used to give me the creeps going in the basement.  His dad had hundreds of Old Milwaukee cases stacked to the ceiling.  The crazy thing was that back in this era they were all returnable.  Had to have been several hundred dollars worth of bottles down there.  Both of his parents were also smokers and everything in the house had nicotine stains on it.  It finally got to where I wouldn't even go into the house to get him.  Just couldn't take the stench.

They actually won the Pennsylvania lottery and moved up to a beautiful cabin up in the Poconos.  Well...it was beautiful for about a year or two anyway.

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