Crazy Cat Lady Turns to Dealing Drugs

When a 75-year-old Dutch woman was pulled over for not wearing her seat belt, she tossed something out the window. The evidence she unsuccessfully tried to ditch was a package of cocaine. She admitted she had marijuana on her, too. Drug dealing isn’t your usual retirement plan, but this woman said she needed the cash to feed her cats.

According to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the cops let her off with a warning when she promised to find a more legal means of meeting her pet food tab. This story raises a lot of questions – How many cats did she have? Did anyone check on her to see if there was a hoarding problem? Anyone call social services? Anyone try to find out who her supplier was? Or were they all too busy being flabbergasted by the drug dealing crazy cat lady to get to the bottom of the situation?

For the record: I’m not calling her a crazy cat lady because she needed a cocaine-sized salary to feed the number of cats she had. I tend to see that a slur against people who have legit – albeit devastating - psychological issues and brushing them off as “crazy” doesn’t get us any closer to resolving the issues and saving animals. And we don’t even know how many cats this woman had – maybe it was just one or two who subsisted on imported sushi-grade fish. No, I’m calling her a crazy cat lady because Grandma dealt drugs to buy cat food.

That’s dedication, but there have got to be better ways. I mean, I’ll go pretty far for my animals, but I keep it legal. My cats and dogs wouldn’t do well if I was locked away in prison.

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