Thursday, May 21, 2015

The Definition Of A Crazy Cat Lady

By Tammie Caldwell


There are some people who work in animals shelters where large numbers of animals are cared for. However, sometimes a woman who is not paid or supported by anyone, might have an obsession with cats, so they might have many of them in their own homes. This woman is usually called by certain individuals a crazy cat lady.

There might be one woman who lives in the neighborhood and has been single for a long time. She has never been married and she does not have any children. She has a very special place in her heart for animals of all kinds but is particularly fond of cats. So she decides to have a cat as a pet since she believes in taking care of animals.

This woman is usually single and does not have any responsibilities to others since they live on their own. So they use the opportunity to use the space they have in their home to take care of these cats. The main problem is that their home is usually too small to take care of so many cats.

This might seem to others as a compulsion or a mental illness since these women are typically in a situation where they have more cats than the average person, sometimes as much as 65 or more. Having this many cats can be unsettling to others especially if the woman is unable to keep the place clean and provide for each cat and their individual needs.

Another woman in another town is in a similar living situation, but her reasons are quite different from the first lady. This woman was married at one time, but her husband died a year ago. She has five children, but the youngest left home over four years now and she is all alone.

Due to her need to take care of others, she ends up taking in lots of cats. These women are usually older and live on a pension, so they are not very wealthy to begin with. Yet, they might have so many cats over a certain amount of time because taking them in helps them feel better about themselves.

As a result, she took in a cat every chance she got. She had so many cats that the neighbors were worried about the living conditions in the house she lived in. Some of them tried to talk to her, but she saw them as threatening to break up her new family, which in her mind is the only family she had at the time.

These two portraits might appear to be the same due to the number of cats these women have, but their reasons for taking in so many of them are different. There might even be other reasons besides these two for why a person would take in so many animals. In either case, both women see this as an opportunity to give love to a creature who needs it.




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