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81-year-old woman arrested for hoarding cats

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    Authorities remove over 60 felines in Arizona

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Deputies caught and remove the cats one by one.

Rootkit -- to -- but to me animals are an elderly person -- care or let alone care for themselves deputies -- 81 year old Lucy and -- bowl on animal cruelty.

Many of the cats had severe infections and the -- was trying to give the medical care on her own.

Deputies found expired medicine in the fridge an old used syringes this is just not the proper care these animals.

This is the second time deputies have raided the home and found dozens of cats back in 2010 they found more than ninety cats all of them had to be put down.

They also found nine cats in her freezer she told investigators she use the frozen cats to make a felines do.

It's just been joking or are you guys pretty confident that she was cooking these cats with nine frozen cats in a freezer.

We're pretty confident.

That -- she she meant those -- The home is littered with trash and in Whitman.

It's got a reputation and I look like -- -- 81 year old lives alone -- Cheatham often took her to buy supplies.

Net and seeded if they get.

It was intentional.

And this seat that -- back to take care that she had kittens that she was speeding at the school milk.

After removing more than a 150 cats on two occasions.

The humane societies veterinarian.

Is frustrated.

The -- pay the price I don't want this woman to go to jail.

But this woman needs to not be allowed to have animals and she needs to get help.