Thread: Got Cats?....How about poop?

OCALA, Fla. - A man living in a home with a layer of animal feces between 2 and 3 inches deep and as many as 300 cats, both alive and dead, was arrested Friday, authorities said.

Jonathan Terpstra, 61, was charged with 55 counts of animal cruelty, two counts of tampering with evidence and one count of resisting without violence, the Ocala Star-Banner reported.

Authorities had to break some windows to ventilate the home. Oxygen levels inside the home were low and ammonia levels extremely high, said Lt. Ron Baroni, with Marion County Fire Rescue.

Animal feces also was backed up in corners and crevices, Baroni said.

One deputy told the paper that when he arrived at the home, there were vultures feeding on a cat carcass and more vultures on the rooftop.

Animal control officials removed at least 80 cats from the home by Friday evening, said Dennis Underwood, an animal control field supervisor with the county's Code Enforcement Department. The animals were being examined, Underwood said.

Terpstra was being held at the Marion County jail on $1,000 bond.

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that is gross. sick sick man

that's just wrong.. my gf has 1 cat.. and if she lets it for more then a day.. that litter box just REAKS!!

i can't imagin.. don't wanna imagin..

DiGiTaL

that man must have lived a lonely lonely life

What kinda guy would do something like that?

"mr.woo" wrote:

that man must have lived a lonely lonely life

i doubt it, cats make good company. ;D

"jmcdon00" wrote:

"mr.woo" wrote:

that man must have lived a lonely lonely life

i doubt it, cats make good company. ;D

I think you mean "cats make good target practice".

"Billy" wrote:

"jmcdon00" wrote:

"mr.woo" wrote:

that man must have lived a lonely lonely life

i doubt it, cats make good company. ;D

I think you mean "cats make good target practice".

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