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BEAMAN, IOWA - Just about 45 cats are now in need of homes after two Eastern Iowa shelters rescued them from a hoarder situation.
This happened just outside of Beaman, in rural Grundy County, Iowa.
Rescuers found around 45 cats but not all of them alive, and in deplorable conditions.
The tenant had moved out, and now the cats are being cared for.
Although the cats are safe now, there’s a big burden on the rescuers shoulders to nurse them back to health.
Denis Yantis and her friend Amy Haas-Gray both run very small shelters.
“I’ve seen some pretty bad things,” said Haas-Gray. “Some hoarder situations, some dead animal cases, but this is the worse I’ve been in. And my first thought was, ‘oh my God, these cats suffered horribly, horribly.'”
Rescuing these cats proved no easy feat.
The garbage spilling out onto the front lawn was like an obstacle course, and the smell, coming from the living and dead cats, was like knock-out gas.
“My car would reek for days, just having the cat carriers in my car,” said Haas-Gray. “So you can imagine having a few cats in my car the smell, multiply that by 1000 and that’s how the house smells.”
Haas-Gray and Yantis took every cat into their individual rescue centers, which they said was an extremely mentally taxing.
“It was tiring, stressful, it was a lot of work,” said Yantis.
Every last one of the cats have medical issues — worms, respiratory issues, and skin disease.
Both women have taken on all the costs of caring for the cats out of their own pockets..
Their shelters are full which is preventing them from helping and assisting other animals.
If you’re interested in taking in one of these cats or in helping out in some other way, here is Denise Yantis’s information:
http://rescueinn.petfinder.com
Email: yahcats@yahoo.com