First, a quick heads up: One of our favorite blogs on the internet, Urlesque, will be spending all day tomorrow, September 9, 2009, as “A Day Without Cats on the Internet”, giving our feline friends a long needed break from giving us, the needy reading public, a minimum of 3 LOLz per day. To respect their wishes, Bestweekever.tv will be participating in this solemn and, in some ways, celebratory day. That’s right: All day tomorrow, 9/9/09, we will not — we repeat, NOT – talk about cats, in any way, shape, or form.
Luckily, today is only the 8th, meaning we can talk about cats as much as we damn please. And what better way to prep for this no doubt painful task at hand than to discuss the recent episode of A&E’s Hoarders, featuring Shirley. “Who is Shirley?” you ask? Oh. I’m glad you did.
Shirley, ladies and gentleman, is a garbage hoarder who happens to have about 40 live cats living amongst the boxes and boxes of sh*t and filth and scratched furniture in her New Mexico home. Now, if you’ve ever seen A&E’s Hoarders, you know that the show is no fun task. In fact, week in and week out, I constantly question why, exactly, I watch this Hoarders. Unlike Intervention, which addresses the mental and emotional issues plaguing the person with the addiction, Hoarders just attempts to clean up that person’s home, when clearly there is more of a mental issue at play than just simple disorganization. It’s safe to say when a person doesn’t throw away pet fur because he thinks it’s going to kill his dog, cleanliness is not the main issue.
Still, much like it’s equally annoying reality show brother Obsessed, I still manage to tune in week after week despite its unpleasantness. But this latest episode of Hoarders hit new lows. As Animal Control scoured the home for live cats to capture and take away, they also come across this other thing… known as “dead cats.” Tons and tons of dead cats. Dead cats in every shape and size! Tiny ones, big ol’ adult ones, full cat skeletons, little kitty skulls, mummified whole ones, and parts of dead cats that you can’t even figure out. I watched this episode last night before bed time. Here is an animated rendition of me at 4 AM, Pee Wee Herman style:
So, to gear up for tomorrow’s Day Without Cats, why don’t you not give yourself nightmares tonight and watch this tale of a home stripped of all of its cat friends, living or dead. Click the image below for Part I, or click here.
