Watch 130 underfed cats being saved!

Police have arrested a 60-year-old woman for mistreating animals after they found 130 scrawny cats in her 25-square metre flat in Montparnasse (Paris). Police were alerted by a neighbour who told them that she had seen the women repeatedly throwing a kitten against the window of her top floor apartment in the Montparnasse area. “When officers entered the flat they saw a dramatic scene,” said one police, which published a video of the cats swarming around inside the squalid flat.

“When officers entered the flat they saw a dramatic scene. There were cats everywhere, they were under-fed, it stank! The only furniture was a really filthy mattress, a fridge, two litter trays for 130 cats, poo everywhere and no food,” he said. The woman was barefoot and in rags when police arrived to free the cats. “This lady created a great problem for all of us. You can imagine the smell,” said a neighbour. An animal charity, the Fondation 30 Millions d’Amis, was called in to take the cats to safety but they were so numerous that it took them four days to catch them all and get them into cages to be transported to its shelters.

It took them 4 days!

“I did not have enough cages! As there was a hole in the ceiling of the studio and they walked under the roof in the common parts of the building,” said Arnault Lhomme, who works for the charity, which is now looking for homes to take in the pets. The kitten that was thrown against the window was taken to a vet’s surgery for treatment for its serious injuries. It was placed on morphine for three days while the vet kept it under observation to see if its condition would improve. Watch the video, this rescue turned out to be much harder than expected.