The locals don't like it when a cathouse rolls into town.

Funny that billiondollarcause you're touting all over the site today doesn't even have ONE donation listed ... sounds fishy to me.

Evidently he doesn't have friends.

He's visiting his girlfriend at the medical center.

Mr. Reynolds may have had good intentions when he decided to harbor 74 cats.

However, considering the health problems that many of the animals were suffering from, this "cat farm" became counterproductive. Mr. Reynolds should have realized that he needed assistance from animal shelters. Too many times, individuals who irresponsibly "collect" so many animals have some kind of mental illness that prevents them from seeing that they are perpetrating more harm than good.

The best aspect to this story is that none of the animals have to be euthanized.

Do you feel as strongly about homeless humans Cassie? Seeing THAT is what makes ME sad for days.

Do you feel as strongly about homeless humans Cassie? Seeing THAT is what makes ME sad for days.

Honestly, not so much. They have resources if they want to pull themselves together. Domestic animals can't help themselves much, although they try rather than indulging in deliberate self-destructive behavior while expecting someone else to save them.

I'm not saying that is the case with all homeless people, but I think it is the case with many of them.

Thank you for your honesty and let me say that caring more about the welfare of an animal, ANY animal, than a person who is down on their luck is about the most heartless, callous, and downright sickening position I can think of. I used to have a cat that caught and ate birds regularly even though I always had food for it. Let's see a homeless person do that! Cats have claws, fur coats and are natural predators, even domestic ones. Can they all survive outside on their own? No, some will perish and the strong will survive, but they have a much better chance than a person with no weapon and no resources outside on his own. ALL homeless humans would perish in short order if it weren't for the charity of other humans, humans with a heart and soul who care about their fellow man.

What a good and agreeable person in such a bad and disagreeable situation. Hope everything ends well for all.

cassie321, you are so right, i also was harassed for feeding stray dogs. i would get really pissed when i i i would see an animal control officer chasing a dog into the middle of a busy street.

Leroy,

Leroy, let me reply, animals act out of INSTINCT and the need for survival. Humans act with VIOLENCE just because they can. Do you understand the difference? I guess you do not. Have you ever seen a dog run into a store and buy a gun because another dog threatened it? I guess you have not. How 'bout a cat grabbing a knife to protect herself when another cat enters her territory? I guess you have not. That's right babe, they use the weapons they already have. But humans...no we don't do that. We don't fight with what we already have. We run into a store and buy guns, knives and every other weapon available.

SPAY & NEUTER YOUR ANIMALS and Leroy don't have kids, but I'm thinking I'm too late with that advice.

leroy brown::: I agree with what you said. Some people can be so callous. Maybe that person should get involved with homeless veterans-- or any homeless person-- rather than homeless cats.

Homeless cats usually find someone who has a heart and feels sorry for them. I live in a mobile home, as do neighbors. I think I counted four or five that visit my back deck-- and that doesn't include my own cat, who lives mostly inside.

I think it's hilarious when people hatefully attack others for not being kind enough by their standards.

Silly little geese.

It is cold to turn our backs on ANY creature that we are capable of helping. Susie, with all due respect this comment: Homeless cats usually find someone who has a heart and feels sorry for them is completely false and not in touch with reality. Something like only 1 in 6 cats EVER finds a home (including owners who feed and otherwise care for outdoor cats). People like this man take on so many because for every one person like him, there are a thousand who don't care or assume someone else will take pity on them. I challenge anyone who thinks it's not a problem to call their local animal control and ask them how many animals have been put down in the last year--you'll be shocked. Especially since it's mostly avoidable with a simple spay/neuter.

Sandra::: You'd get Poed (is that the correct spelling) when you saw animal control chasing a dog down the street? What was the dog doing running down the street? Most civilized towns have leash laws, and one states that the dog must be in a fenced yard unless it is being walked and then should be on a leash.

You never know of the temperment of a dog that is running loose. It might be one that would harass you or bite you. Guess you wouldn't mind a dog come up and take a chunk out of your leg. Of course not-- you'd sue the owner for letting the dog run loose.

That's why animal control tried to catch loose dogs.

Leroy, I don't feel sorry for a homeless person. Why? Because usually it is due to their own mistakes. BTW, we have homeless shelters, Catholic Charities, the YMCA and the YWCA, food pantries, The Red Cross, The Salvation Army and a host of other non-profits to assist in getting them help. There is also the Welfare system, WIC for woman and children, food stamps, Unemployment benefits, grants and loan to go back to school, and other churches that would help. People have anything they need available to them for food, shelter and medical care. All they need to do is apply themselves to make it better for themselves. The choice is theirs. Most animals that roam the streets have been abandoned by their human owners. I use human lightly because to abandon an animal is not a humane thing to do. They have 3 options, fend for themselves ( a stray cat has a life span of 2 yrs), be taken to a shelter where 65% or more will die, or have a real human rescue them.

BTW, I would trust a panther in a dark alley before a human with a gun. At least I know what to expect from a panther but well the humans they are more unstable than a cat. Also if there was a human and an animal in the road with a truck coming, I'd rescue the animal first cause humans know better but the animal doesn't. Besides animal are more capable of having compassion, giving true love and showing respect more than most humans. I vote for the animals, hands down!

No, he does not deserve a medal. Keeping a large number of animals in poor filthy conditions is not doing them a kindness. It is cruel. Faulty thinking like that is what makes animal hoarders. They cannot care for the animals. The animals end of sick, suffering and almost feral. Often by the time authorities step in the animals are in such bad condition many must be put down to end their suffering. Do not for a minute think this is good for the animals or for the humans. It is a sign of a serious mental disorder. People need to spay/neuter their animals and support animal shelters that can actually help the animals.

BTW, the reason for animals being euthanised by the millions is due to human ignorance, stupidity and greed. We need a Nationwide mandatory spay neuter. Anyone who is caught with an intact animal should be fined 500.00 and if they don't have it fixed within 30 days the animal is taken from them and they are then fined 5K for being ignorant.

lucygoosie::: Yes, spay and neuter animals. Do YOU spay and neuter all the strays who happen to show up at your door. I can tell you for sure people around here don't spay and neuter the strays that show up at their door. That's why I have so many coming around my home to eat-- and possibly to have kittens. I can't afford to spay and neuter the strays-- I live on a fixed income.

I did neuter the cat that I was given-- at $47.26 a pop I can't neuter the strays. I can't even get close enough to them to see who would need which procedure.

I did have animal control come and get one stray. He growled and snarled at all the cats that had been coming around-- and was a noisy voice at night. Since he has "left" my others have begun to come back, along with two or three new ones. And there may be babies under my mobile home.

The one that "left" was a wild one, probably would never calm down. The ones who still "live here" are fairly calm-- but don't stay when people come their way.

Norskejente;

Talk about BIG GOVERNMENT, your "solution" would leave all breeding rights to the government or the puppy mill industry. So I guess then the only dogs you will find are pure breeds. I have a mutt, dusty, who I love more than anything, she has been the best friend anyone could have. I hate to see abused and starving animals but what you are advocating would lead to even worse abuses by a very uncaring profit hungry industry.

Cassie it is sweet that you left the food for the animal but that animal needed to go to a shelter and not be left out on its own. In this country cats are considered the throw away pet. The reason behind that is people feel that the cat can fend for itsel if left by its own out in the wild. This is so far from the truth. On a 4-1 ratio cats, compared to dogs, are more likely to be put down once they have been brought into shelter due to the fact there is so many of them. Cats are able to have at least 3 litters a year, so if each litter has lets say 6 kittens in the litter, consider how many cats can come into a shelter in one day during breeding season. Then you have people who think why should I take the cat or kittens to the shelter they will just drop them off along side a road, in the woods, in neighborhood, etc. what happens is then the cats become feral. If you want to have a cat then you are responsible to have that cat sterilzied and up to date on its shots. The shots you can do yourself, just go to your local farm supply store and get the shots, the only one in question would be the rabies, in some states rabie shots must be given by a licensed vetrinarian. Call around and check the prices on sterilization, check to see if you have a traveling vet clinic that comes in your area 1 or 2 times a month, check with the colleges, the skill centers, to see if they are in need of animals to sterilize. I understand this guy felt compelled to take the cats with him but there is something seriously wrong with him and the girlfriend. I hope to God that animal control got a hold of the animal control from where the guy is from and see if they could get a search warrant to check the house where cats are normally at and see what condition that place is in, because if the trailer is that bad so is the house. For those of you that watch animal planet please realise that an animal control officer must go through a list of procedures before they can take an animal away from its owner, they can only take the animal immediately if situation warrants it or they can convince the owner to sign the animal over to them. The officer can not kick in the door and act like Barney Bad Ass, they either have to have a search warrant from the prosecutor or the animal owner allows them to enter the building. So many people believe that an animal control officer can go and take an animal away from someone just on the complainant's word. Too many people have started off thinking they could help a critter that needed a home then they keep adding more and more till it is so out of control,it is a sickness but unfortunately who suffers from it is the cat or dog.

Sandra if you are feeding a stray dog, which in this case is several stray dogs in the eye of the law those animals are considered yours, which means you have to have them up to date on their shots, licenses, etc. You are to be following the ordinances of your area which probably include dogs are to be tied up or fenced in so that they are not running loose. To be mad at an animal control officer for trying to catch a dog that is running loose is ridculous, THAT IS THEIR JOB! Another thing too, in case you didn't know, as I stated, since you are feeding these "stray" dogs if one of these dogs attack and bite someone or someone's pet, kill livestock, do property damage. YOU ARE THE ONE REPONSIBLE FOR THE COST AND COULD END UP IN COURT! Animal officers are there to make sure that animal owners follow the law and are taking care of their pets, besides making sure that stray animals are taken off the streets. So Sandra if they aren't your dogs then why don't you let animal control take them in so that way either their family will claim or they end up in a new home with a roof over their head and a family that loves them.

Good morning! Wow, seems we started quite the discussion Cassie, good to see. Sorry animal lovers, but with the millions of starving people in the world, the pointless, idiotic wars resulting in the slaughter of countless innocent civilians, the genocides in African countries, all the human suffering and misery should be addressed and solved before we worry about anything else. That is my opinion anyway, and you are all certainly entitiled to yours.

I remember a program I saw about a man in an asian country who's job it was to cook cats. He grabbed the cat's head in tongs, dipped it in boiling oil [made the skin come off easier] then skinned it ALIVE. The skinned cat was still twitching when he began cooking it. The amazing thing was the nonchalant look on his face, he had no guilt or shame about it. He looked around at the cameras with a bewildered look on his face, he couldn't understand all the interest in his mundane job of cooking cats. As a North American, I found it rather shocking, but we ARE at the top of the food chain and other animals are our food. Animals do not have "rights," they are unable to claim a right or even comprehend what a right is. They only rights they have are those that humans in certain cultures choose to give certain animals.

Time to go to Tim Horton's for a coffee. If there is a homeless person outside, I will buy them a coffee, if there is a stray cat, well, it can just fend for itself. Later...

Deprogramer, Let me explain... First, all dogs, cats, rabbits and ferrets should be licensed. This would help pay for more animal control officers which btw most only pick up dogs. Next would be enact a law if you want to breed an animal you must first take a course (be licensed) on the responsibilities of breeding, vet check the animal to make sure it is healthy enough to be bred, register with your state, license and vet check all offspring, and be open to inspections. The law would have to classify each type of breeder, for ex. Class A, Breeders who sell more than 50 animals to the public, Class B, Breeders who sell 25 to 50 animals to the public, Class C, Breeders who sell less than 25 to the public and Class D, Breeders that want to breed their pet but not sell to the public. Animals should only be bred once a yr. By doing this we could first and foremost eliminate puppy mils because they would never agree to be open to inspections or breeding only once a yr. Eliminate puppy mills and the breeding of dogs is cut in half. I don't have a problem with breeding, but if someone wants to do this then they better be a responsible breeder. IMO right now breeders are making money off the killing of animals. It is out of control and these animals pay the ultimate price for human ignorance. It has got to stop!

Also make microchipping mandatory so owned pets can be returned asap to the owner instead of taking space up in a shelter. By doing this we can eliminate the holding period of 3 to 5 days for animals in the shelter. It also gives shelters the right to treat any animal that is not microchipped. Shelters in many states can't treat ill pets due to not having the owners permission and many animals suffer because of this. Shelters will also be allowed to euthanise a suffering animal if it is not owned. Also any animal not microchipped can be put up for adoption asap instead of waiting for a holding period to end.

If someone wants a pet then they damn well better be responsible for that pet. It is unfortunate that we have to make laws to fix this problem, but euthanising animals is not the solution but a temporary fix. Society has created this problem and now we need to enact laws to fix it and make pet owners responsible. Again until then these animals will pay the price for our ignorance, greed and stupidity!

People like Leroy Brown are the reason the state of the world is the way it is. Obviously people like him think all creatures that are non-humans are lesser beings and here for our taking, using, and abusing, and that's just really pathetic.

I agree that a good majority of homeless people are in the situation they're in because of their own stupidity and mistakes. I live in Los Angeles where you have drug addicts and runaways living in the streets and refuse to get help for their addiction. They have resources to help them but many will not use these resources because they don't like abiding by the rules. I had a friend who was homeless in Hollywood for 6 months as a teenager due to drug addiction

It's hard out there for a pimp.

From by the appearance of the cats in the pictures (coloring and condition), I suspect that in-breeding contributed to the problem. He probably had fewer than 74 when he started this trip.

SSM::: Where did they come from? Guess you don't know cats. They can come from anywhere-- and end up everywhere.

There are four or five that visit my back deck-- and I might have some babies under my mobile home. But no one can blame MY tom cat!

Cat.... cool tat!!

"Tats" are for sailors and convicts.

Let it go Cat - the jealousy will consume you.

Please look at the pictures. It's not like there was just a turd or 2 laying on the floor...It was a layer of feces that the cats and that poor dog were forced to live in. Yes, he definitely was torturing them.

Jerry it is inhumane to have 74 cats in a small trailer full of feces. You complain that most shelters will just put them down. County shelters do the best they can with what they have, they will try to adopt out which ones are adoptable, in an amount of cats like this there are many that have not had much human interaction and that can hamper their chances of adoption. It is not unusual, let us say in a city of 60,000 people to have an average of 125 or more cats come in on a weekly basis, what ones are not claimed by their owners are eventually put up for adoption, add another 25-30 feral cats to that amount each week, that are not adoptable at all beacause they have had no human contact whatsoever and are trapped in livetraps and brought to the shelters. Most of your county shelters can not turn away cats or dogs that are brought in to them, so decisions have to be made as to which cats have been there the longest and that no one is showing interest in at all, they end up having to be euthanized so there is room for the other cats that are coming in. Until people are willing to take and get their cat sterilized we are going still have too many cats out there , there needs to be places where people can go to have their cat sterilized cheaply, my youngest cat just got recently sterilized and it was $225.00!! So think of it Jerry how would you like to be stuck in a small cramped place with 73 other people and the place was full of feces?

Yeah, when I read the article title, I thought, "Great, another animal hoarder." But then I read what the article had to say.

This man knew the names of every single cat. He really cared about them, and wanted what was best for them. Sadly he just couldn't accommodate them all.

Pat this man on the back, and I hope these cats find good homes.

Please be careful believing that he had a name for every cat. Animal hoarders are notorious for being able to create names when asked...they just can't give you the same names twice. This man has issues.

Doing what is right for the animals is what is important and what he should have done is surrender the majority of the cats to a shelter so that they could get proper medical care and hopefully find new homes. This man is sick and he needs help. This was animal cruelty, if you haven't looked at the pictures yet please do so, this was no way for these cats to live, they deserve better than this.

The poor dog. That's a felony right there.

Guess he didn't have the scratch to put them in a kennel!

He doesn't need love & compassion...he needs treatment, as animal hoarding is a mental problem. I love cats too, but it makes me sick when someone locks a bunch in a small area and then thinks that he is helping them. Unless they were all declawed, these cats would be much better off trying to fend for themselves in the wild than being trapped in a stench-soaked feces-filled trailer.

I absolutely agree!!! Also- I wonder why most of the cats look like the same breed or have the same markings?

virgo girl::: He's my brother by another mother.

Virgo they look like they are Rag Dolls, I have 2 myself, but this was definitely inhumane conditions that these cats were in. He may believe he was doing right by them but he was not. To have 74 cats in a trailer is inhumane!!! I just can't believe the responses people are stating here, I know you are all thinking oh how much this guy loves those cats, his love is misguided to have that many cats in a trailer is not healthy for the cats, it spreads: disease, fleas, worms, etc. They deserve better homes than that.

I wish your parents had said that right BEFORE they conceived you. One more kid in this house...nah.

LB - That's why people know there need to be limits. At least, sane, caring people, unlike you.

Please look at the pictures in the link. The camper is the type that sits on a flat-bed truck, and the article states that the man had been living in his truck for 5 weeks. I think this is the man's home.

Please look at the pictures in the link. The camper is the type that sits on a flat-bed truck, and the article states that the man had been living in his truck for 5 weeks. I think this is the man's home.

@Doogie-2604690: I did look at the pictures in the link. And I don't see any indication in any of the pictures that the camper is anything other than the standard kind that sits on the back of a pickup truck. It looks to be about 6 feet wide at the back and you can't see how long it is because none of the pictures show that.

Sidebar: If the sick wife, husband, AND 74 cats and a dog were living all together in that thing, no wonder the wife got sick.

I think you're right, Lisa.

Both of you are wrong. an animal hoarder believes they are doing the right thing by taking in animal after animal till they have too many to properly take care of them, they end up doing more harm than good. THIS GUY, AND MOST LIKELY THE GIRLFRIEND TOO, IS AN ANIMAL HOARDER!!!

I couldn't agree more, Freedom. The posters who are saying they are animal lovers and leave food out for strays are hurting, not helping. They could do more by trapping the strays and having them neutered, then either finding homes for them or releasing them.

And for those who "take in" strays, if you can't afford to neuter them, you can't afford to own them.

Debi_E::: Are YOU rich enough to have strays spayed or neutered? I'll have a bunch shipped to you so that you can have it done.

I am unemployed-- a senior citizen on a fixed income.

OK, female. You send me the $47.00 to neuter each male and I don't know how much to spay and I will try to trap them all and have it done. We aren't all rich like you seem to be-- you must be one of the 1%. I'm not.

I just paid out $225.00 for a stray cat we took in, we did it because we knew it was the responsbile thing to do and I was not going to have a cat that has not been sterilized. If you can't afford it check with your local humane society there maybe a program to help pay to have to cat sterilized. If you live close to a college where vetrinarians train see it they are in need for patients to do strelization on. If you want to keep the cat around you need to step up to the plate and get the cat fixed. $47.00 is a smallamount compared to what we just had to pay.

You could have donated that money to a homeless shelter, a food bank, used it to support a foster family in a poor country, but why help a starving person when you can help a poor stray kitty? Unbelievable...

Leroy; I do donate and help out at the homeless shelter down the street from me, what I am trying to express here is if you take in an animal you are responsible for the care and welfare of that animal. That includes sterilizing the animal too. It just amazes me how many people here think this guy should be left alone with the 74 cats. Come on folks, be realistic about this. He can not take of 74 cats look at the condition of the trailer, that is cruelty.

I agree completely, irresponsible pet owners have caused the problem of strays. Irresponsible people have caused a huge problem of unwanted, unloved children, and child poverty. No person should take in a pet or have a child unless they are financially and emotionally stable enough to handle the responsibility.

Leroy you are one of the good ones!!