Just a short revision of what has happened for those readers that have not read all the updates. We moved next door to Camp Kitty about 3 years ago. The situation there was surreal! Dead cats lying about the yard, the stench of excrement from up to 200 cats and also the rotting corpses! We contacted the RSPCA and were told that `there were no welfare issues'. We persisted with our complaints, and wrote to all the State MP'S, all the Councils in NSW, the Premier (Mike Baird) the Minister Responsible for Administering POCTA (Niall Blair), the Minister for the Environment, the Dept. of Biosecurity and also many letters were sent to Cowra Council. The Dept of Health was also contacted, as was Paul Toole, Minister for local Government, and the Police. Ultimately the petition on Change.org was lodged. RSPCA were supplied with many photographs of the poor cats, their ailments, the corpses and the environment. Actually a 12 year old would have known that there were welfare issues! Consider 200 cats, the food cost alone. Maybe a dollar a day per cat, $7 a week, so the weekly food bill would be $1400. What about vet bills? According to a TV advert for RSPCA Pet Insurance they will pay up to $11000 per year per animal. So maybe by the RSPCA'S own costings 200 cats may represent a considerable annual vet cost! But for many years the RSPCA had maintained that `there were no welfare issues' No single person could absorb those sorts of costs. I can imagine that 12 year old shaking his head in amazement that the RSPCA would make such statements. I can also imagine the 12 year old crying about such neglect and indifference shown to these animals. The local paper (Cowra Guardian) became involved, an article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, and there were a couple of segments on Prime7 News. Cowra Council had been doing what it could to try and rectify some of the problems at Camp Kitty. It had paid for an independent animal behaviourist to inspect the cats. Apparently there was evidence of psychological disorders amongst the animals, but the RSPCA did not think that sufficient to act! There was also a legal case brought before the Land and Environment Court, and it was that Court that decided that Richard was able to keep up to 33 cats at his property. Apparently Cowra Council has spent over $200000 trying to deal with the issues created by Richard McCudden at Camp Kitty, something that they would not have had to do if the RSPCA had acted when they were first told about that establishment. Still `no welfare issues' until one day the RSPCA conducted a raid. 10 vehicles arrived early morning and were there for approximately 10 hours. Some cats were removed, maybe some were destroyed on site (not known) and Richard McCudden was eventually prosecuted. 25 animal cruelty charges were brought and in December 2016 Richard McCudden was convicted under the Criminal Code. His Solicitor pleaded insanity (NEXT UPDATE SOON– what has happened since.)