Cops: Woman Had Over 420 Cats in Two Homes
 

BURKE, Va. - Neighbors who had wondered what that stench was from another town house spent Thursday coming to grips with the answer. Police said the odor was that of more than 100 dead cats, plus nearly 50 more live ones, being kept by an elderly woman.

That same woman was arrested earlier this week after authorities removed more than 270 cats, both alive and dead, from another of her homes in the county's Mount Vernon section.

Ruth Knueven, 82, already faces charges including cruelty to animals and obstruction of justice for the July 8 discovery in Mount Vernon. Police said Thursday they are deciding whether to level additional charges against Knueven after finding 134 dead cats and 47 living ones in a Burke home belonging to her family.

"All of these cats had respiratory disease and there were feces and urine all around the house," said Officer Richard Henry, a Fairfax County police spokesman. He said all the cats found alive in both homes had to be euthanized.

Neighbors in the quiet Burke community on Lakepointe Drive said they had noticed foul smells coming out of the town house, but didn't know what was causing them until police arrived. They said they had seen Knueven hauling heavy garbage bags that they now presume were filled with dead cats.

"Who would've ever thought that they were cats - dead cats - in those bags," said neighbor Nancy Fields. Fields said she had to burn incense in her basement and scour its walls with disinfectant because of the stench coming from next door.

Conditions in the houses did not endanger neighbors and their homes, said John Yetman of the Fairfax County Health Department.

Knueven and her family have been living in a hotel since Friday, when health officials declared her Mount Vernon home unfit for human habitation.

:eek7 why didnit she just buried the cats?

4:20? Spark it

Leave the senile old lady alone. What's punishing her going to do? She probably didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

I'm not a cat person. Dogs are the way to go.

that's alot of cats

It's a mental disease called animal hoarding.

Sick old hahahaha. :disgust

damn that's nuts

some people are way too weird.

420, huh? :rasta

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Dumb bitch... :disgust

I am sure that online Porn made her do it.

wow, that place had to smell bad.

Who is going to live in those houses after that. :/

One fuck of a odor removal job .

an elder lesbian who was able to say she sleeps with 100's a pussies at night

they did something like that near me, it wasnt nearly as bad. she had too many cats and they warned her and she didnt do anything so they took the house away and auctioned it off. i looked at the house because i was thinking about buying it for investment property, but it went for way too much.

Poor old lady.
WE had a lady like that in our city and they ended up bulldozing her house doen.

I had an old cat lady and her cat lady daughter living in one of our apartments and they 16 cats. They weren't supposed to have any.
One day they had a leak in their sink so I sent in the plumber and he would not even go in it smelt so bad of cat urine and shit.
I ended up having to evict thema nd rip out all the carpets and redo most of the walls.
It really sucks that some old people get sick and have nobody to help them until it is to late.

man this shit seems to be going on in ever single city in America

Smells like rotten pussy.

Without a doubt.

anyone ever see the cat lady on the simpsons? shes crazy and just pulls cats out and throws them at people, its hilarious.

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its obvious what we should do to mourn for those poor suffering cats...420 :pimp

God dammit beemk! Beat me too it.

meow meow

kitty go bye bye

I have 7 cats :uhoh but mine are all fixed and cleanly. That's disgusting what some people do :(

God..that smell must have been unbearable

fuck that is gross, my wife wants to egt a 3rd cat next week, hope she don't turn into one of these freaks.

that's gross.

wow that is fucking crazy

Damn that is crazy. lol it did remind me of that lady in the simpsons

Anybody see the irony that the county killed the cats anyway... so what the heck was the point.

cause she's crazy. i could hardly imagine how she got immuned with the foul smell. :disgust

That is damn nasty :helpme How the hell was she able to feed all 420 cats???? :helpme