Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a man who became overwhelmed after his cat rescue venture turned into having 300 cats that he was caring for all by himself.
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00:00an animal welfare charity in western canada is scrambling to secure the resources needed to care
00:12for about 300 cats all of them in good condition after a call came in from a man who described
00:20himself as being overwhelmed oh boy by the number of cats and kittens in his house he said it just
00:26got away from him hey you guys you guys with cats chuck and andy don't let it get away from you
00:33if there was two it would have gotten away from me my god yeah my cat likes being alone oh
00:42one cat's good enough bruce robinson told the british columbia sbca that he had taken in the cats
00:48that had been abandoned during covid but the cost of caring for them had become a crazy task after
00:56he lost his job the charity had sent staff to his house in this small town to assess the situation
01:01they said it was unbelievable the cats were sociable they seem to be in good condition
01:08they say the guy had a huge heart and he was definitely caring for them all 300 well that's
01:14good but they had to a lot of times but they just kept multiplying i was gonna say how many do you
01:19think he took care of at first they said that all of them are in good condition right that's yeah i
01:24think he must have been buying food like it was going out of style broke yeah it ruined him
01:30three feeding 300 cats there isn't a small animal alive in that whole area i guess he had tried to
01:36give away some of the cats but didn't have much luck instead he found himself spending thousands of
01:40dollars a month at times going without food himself oh my god to ensure they had all the food
01:48they needed and to buy cat litter for the dozens of litter boxes i didn't even think about that
01:55so many so much poopies cleaning yeah so gross every day that's why he called the cops or whatever
02:02he was like somebody cats you won't believe it cats as far as the eye can see there's cats in my
02:07pockets there's cats all over the living room i'm spending three thousand dollars a month i'm feeding
02:13all these cats gotta help i'm hungry i'm hungry i'm dying here i gotta i gotta help me
02:18i haven't eaten in weeks i haven't eaten in weeks it smells terrible
02:22smells god awful sir how did it get this way i don't know i just had a couple of cats next thing
02:28i knew 300 cats i feel like that's his life i do i feel like he was like i'm gonna rescue these 12
02:33cats like and then they were like six were boys and six were girls and then next thing you know you
02:39got 300 of them yep oh he's trying to be a nice guy he was i love each and every one of them but i
02:44can't i can't do it anymore i have overextended myself greatly he named everyone i was gonna say
02:50i'm just gonna say they all had names sir who how can you give us some of the names jerry danny randy
02:57that's derrick derrick just ran out derrick's out oh man yep george name them all he could not
03:16have known their who's which one's which i love that he did that just means he tried so hard
03:23oh my god right there all 10 of those that's mittens one through 10
03:27he's got to start recycling all the names fluffy 17 get in here
03:34and mitch yeah he had named each one of them he said i love every one of them i was just trying
03:41to give them a safe home but it got away from me oh man oh my goodness so now they're racing to
03:47raise funds to find a building capable of housing 300 cats and they all have to be assessed by a vet
03:55vaccinated and spayed or neutered before being put up for adoption it's a huge undertaking see uh if
04:02he would have crunched the numbers on this when he saved the first 12 if he would have just got
04:07them spayed or neutered like bob barker says then i think he would have saved himself but how much
04:15would that chuck getting all the money on that would be crazy i know but maybe like i don't know
04:23how much that costs i really i really don't know but he was spending you know like thousands a month
04:29right just trying to deliver food they say there were 80 newborn kittens that he had all delivered
04:34himself sir how you doing there he's so busy 80 kittens i don't know how to feel i'm like really
04:40happy but i'm also terrified because these cats are ruining my life but look at these kittens
04:45look at them they're crawling everywhere 80 of them you ever seen anything so adorable you delivered
04:50them all yourself i did every one of them that must have been messy huh i do i feel like most of his
04:56days were spent just in tears but then but every once in a while he'd go to the kitten room right
05:02and he'd just lay on the ground and all the kittens would go on him and he'd be like yep
05:06he's like well that's why i do it yep that's it i wonder if there was like one meow that like
05:11sent him over the edge it was like yeah and he's like that's it
05:14that's it all 300 of you you're gone i can't do it anymore
05:17yep his breaking point that was it that was the last one mittens five
05:22that was it you just screwed everybody else in the whole place i'm done you're all out i am done i'm calling
05:30the cops that was his breaking point i'm almost there with one because cats are little bastards
05:38right if they're hungry or they they wake you up right imagine 300 oh i can't my cat will not be
05:45anywhere else except for wherever i am so and i'm talking like i'll be playing the computer game he'll
05:52jump onto my back yeah i'm like he mustn't have had a life hey cat man you want to join us tonight
06:00we're going out for i can't you know i got all 300 of those cats pretty busy all week yeah i don't
06:07have any money to go out either because it turns out feeding these things is quite pricey god you're
06:12losing weight i know i haven't been eating 300 cats will do it i'm on the 300 cat diet
06:17yeah oh kudos i mean i really it's crazy he needs help he does need help but he's a nice it's the
06:27nicest mass animal story we've ever done yeah usually the animals are in terrible condition
06:32they don't take care of that i know yeah he was in a lucky place was just the nicest guy
06:38and it got out of control i mean he must have rolled up to like a pet food place and be like
06:43i'll take it all all the cat food i'll be back i'm back it up 20 grand cash that chewy that chewy
06:52place is dropping off like a whole truck load right it's like an airdrop yeah yeah the parachute
06:58don't let it get out of control you guys just lisa just lisa 300 cats too much
07:06don't let it get out