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The cats are everywhere you look on Jenkins Lane in Union Township, Clermont County
Richard and Helen Scott live next door to a trailer cats now call home.
Richard Scott says there are at least 25 cats, maybe 30. He says a new litter is born almost every other week.
“We've got stray cats, too. We know they're males and the one comes twice a day around feeding time," says Scott. "[The stray] probably comes in the middle of the night too with all them females."
The Scotts say the cat problem started about six months ago when the elderly woman who lived next door went to live in a nursing home, leaving the cats behind.
"She had one cat, an old man, then she got one or two – then it started. She tried to get them spayed and fixed and neutered, but it just got out of hand,” said Scott.
Scott says he's contacted the Clermont County Health Department, the Clermont County Humane Society and the Clermont County Sheriff's Department, but hasn't gotten any help.
9News left a message with the Clermont County Humane Society Monday afternoon, but the call was not returned.
Scott says the property is owned by the elderly woman's son and he lives in Ashville, North Carolina. The Scotts say when they spoke with him, he said to "Let the cats starve."
The Scotts say they won't let that happen. They feed the cats twice a day and pay for the food on their own.
"They look at you with those big eyes and them ears – and that we're not that kind of people of people to be cruel to them or anything." said Richard Scott.
"I can't see them starve, no way. There ain’t no way we can take care of all of them or have them fixed,” says Helen Scott. “So, if someone would help us or come and get rid of them or pick them up if they really want a cat."
They'd like to find a good home for all of the cats or at least find a way to get them spayed and neutered to make the cats more adoptable.
For more information contact the Scotts at (513) 752-6406.
