After Sis died there were four things that had to be done; I wasn't looking forward to any of them. First, I had to take care of the cats. Second, I had to clean up the house. Third, I had to find an attorney. Finally, I had to find a buyer for the house.

Since I am an animal lover, I had to find a way to rid the house of the cats. There is no way that I would contact an exterminator. That would have been the easy way out. So what should I do? How about contacting Sis's veterinarian? I made the call and explained the situation. I mentioned that Sis had spent thousands of dollars on those cats and most of that money went to him to pay the vet bills. I asked if he could help me out. Could we trap the cats with Havaheart traps and take the captured cats to his clinic or the animal shelter for adoption? I had a Havaheart trap that I have used to capture raccoons in my garden. After they are caught, I take them a distance away and release them. These traps do not catch an animal by a foot with steel jaws; it is simply a large cage with a treddle in the center. The treddle looks similar to a child's teeter-totter. The cage is baited with cat food. A cat walks in and eventually steps on the treddle. That causes the two ends of the cage that are hinged at the top to drop down. The animal is safely captured.

After three weeks of trapping, twenty-one of the twenty-two cats had been caught. One escaped out the garage door when it was opened. Hopefully it found a new home.

The veterinarian had a girlfriend that lived about twenty miles away. She was also a veterinarian. Together, through their clinics, they found homes for the twenty-one cats. What a happy ending to a horrible nightmare!

Now for the rest of the nightmare: How do I clean up the house?