Cat Stash Fever

Cat Stash Fever in Petaluma, California

Rescuing cats from squalor (5/23/2001)
Petaluma Cat 'Hoarder' Arrested (5/23/01)
Cats overrun squalid home in Petaluma (5/24/01)
Woman's Past Troubles With Cats (5/24/01)
Cat owner says it started with 2 fecund felines (5/25/01)
Cat 'hoarders' are usually victims of mysterious obsession (5/27/01)
Extra security precautions taken in response to threats (6/2/01)
Petaluma Shelter Takes Custody of 196 Cats (6/3/01)
Barletta pleads innocent to animal cruelty (6/4/01)
She skipped neutering to avoid traumatizing pets (6/5/01)
Evil Bichon-tosser versus the crazy cat lady (6/8/01)
Experts to begin evaluating rescued cats (6/13/01)
Fugitive cat lady caught at S.F. hotel (11/03)
Cat lady ... incompetent to stand trial (5/04)
Cat Lady's home remodeled, on market (6/04)
'Cat house' remains for sale (2/05)

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"All of a sudden there were more and more cats," said Marilyn Barletta, who acknowledged moving dozens of cats from a rented house in Bel Marin Keys to the Petaluma address after she ran into legal trouble with her Marin landlord. "It was a population explosion." "I know this sounds bizarre," said Barletta, a 61-year-old retired real estate agent, in an interview outside her Russian Hill apartment in San Francisco. "But I'm a rational person."