250 Cats Found in Feces-Infested Home

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ST. CROIX FALLS, Wis. - The stench was enough to guide emergency workers to a house where a utility worker had responded to a report of a power outage and found a house full of cats. Police Chief Paul Lindholm described the smell as unbearable and said the cat feces in the building was several inches deep on the floor.



Firefighters Thursday night removed 250 cats from the house, half already dead and the rest so ill they had to be killed.


Lindholm said a Polk County circuit judge signed an order to euthanize the cats because they were diseased.


An 86-year-old woman lived in the home with her daughter and son-in-law, but they had not been located. Investigators said they may have been staying with relatives in the area.