Dear lord who art in heaven in your all mighty wisdom and grace protect us your flock from the cat flood and woe to thus unto themselves who do not believe in your protection for they shall be consumed in the cat flood and never know the light of day again . Amen
My friend's mom was a cat lady.. she took in about 12 strays. She kept them in one room about 1/3rd the size of that one - so, much more room per cat. She took good care of them (feeding, changing litter etc) - as best you could for 12 cats in a small room. That said, the stench in the room was UNREAL. Not of feces or urine, just of cat funk (which I never really experienced before - even as a cat owner).
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "OMFG imagine the stench". I bet it's horrific.
Yeah, I know the funk. My father had a friend who lived in a moldy house in the outback with a cat population out of control. The guy finally lost it at some point and had to take a stroll in the looney bin. We went to see the house while he was gone.. the cats were all over the yard, but when they figured that the bipeds could be bringing food, they started trailing us. Very quietly, very neatly in a tight pack. I remember I had a chicken nugget in my hand, and thought of what it'd take to set off a feline piranha bloodbath?
It's like that one Mr. Wizard where they throw a ping-pong ball into a roomful of mousetraps that have other ping-pong balls on them and... well it's sort of like that.