I want to help a cat hoarder
I'm pretty sure my mother in law is a cat hoarder. She has about 17 cats. My husband gently suggested that we could find homes for them and she reluctantly agreed to consider it--only if the homes were people in my extended family. No strangers, not even friends. I approached one of my family but stopped before the "ask" because I felt that if we help her find homes for the current crop of cats it won't make any difference. She'll just "rescue" more. My husband was pretty unhappy with me.
She's always loved cats but it's gotten pretty bad the past ten years or so, I think since my husband's youngest brother finally moved out. I suspect she's become a cat hoarder out of loneliness.
We live 6 hours away. I'm worried about her cats, but I'm more worried about her. If anything should happen to her we can't take care of all those cats. In fact she became temporarily homeless when a tree fell on her house. Her elderly aunt very reluctantly took in the cats until she gets her house back. That was in September and she's finally moving back in this weekend.
I don't want to make her unhappy. I'm not judging her lifestyle. How can I help her?
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