" In this case, they should be allowed to keep all the cats. It sounds like they are well cared for and in clean surroundings. These people are doing a good thing.. "

" I meant no offense to people with large families, many do support them without assistance. The point is, we can have a cocaine addict shooting up his house at 3am next door, or maybe your neighbor has a nice vat of meth brewing for your inhalation pleasure. The people have CATS, If anyone ever has a real problem with my cats, maybe I will open a boarding kennel for basset hounds in my back yard and show them what's its REALLY like to have a bad neighbor "

" I so agree with Cat LoVer, If they are not making a mess and the Healy live in a clean environment, then let them be. Where we use to live the lady across the street adopted and took in every stay that was left behind by unresponsible people and had them fixed and never what there an issue, and they were outside cats, they did not stray far from home. The only time we ever really noticed them was when she was feeding them in the morning. And what you said about the families that have all the kids and then we support them. Wrong that is so wrong. "

" I understand that it's for the "children's sake" , but seriously, It just seems wrong that a couple can choose to have 10, 15 even 29 CHILDREN they cannot afford, and bleed the system dry with food stamps, medical, and everything else that's awarded to people who have them. Kids make noise, they can be destructive, and dirty, and many more things in a neighborhood far worse than cat's can dream up, I can tell you!
IF this couple truly has their cats inside, in a clean environment, vaccinated and all of them responsibly made unable to reproduce, who are we to tell someone how many "BODIES" they can have residing in their house. THEIR house, that THEY pay the mortgage on, not with money derived from the state, but because quite possibly they WORK for it. People with animals instead of children receive no tax breaks, no assistance, and put back into the community thousands of dollars a year for the costs of caring for their animals.
Some people CHOOSE not to have kids, and for good reason. Why have we allowed government to dictate what we do in our OWN homes. Next they will be telling us how many times we can...er.. take a bath each week.
It's no one's business what goes on behind closed doors, if the cats ARE behind them. It's sad that so many people put flowers, and cars, ahead of a life. To you it may be only a cat, but to someone else, it might be a life to them with personality, with it's own little soul, who make's their life whole, for whatever reason.
To the Healy's- there are some wonderful organizations out there on the west side who would work hard to find some of your lovely's wonderful new homes.
While I love and adore my own cat's, I know I could never offer that many the individual attention they need from us. Maybe you could compromise a bit, and work to keep the one's that truly need you most, and allow some of the others to be enjoyed through a responsible pet adoption agency like R.E.D. or
I'm sure they would sympathize with your plight. Best of luck to you. "