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By Jason Schwalm
I. INTRODUCTION
Police officers and officials from the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals served a warrant at the home of Wanda Oughton on March 26, 2009.1 There they found “93 cats that had virtually destroyed the interior of the structure.”2 The two‐story, million dollar brick home in the upscale Chester Township neighborhood of Morris County, New Jersey, was “filled with feline urine and fecal matter” in piles that “reached two feet high.”3 Read on.