" i am a neighbor and many times traveling down stone rd going by the pet sancturay people in cars would stop to ask me where the place was. the shelters in Sandpoint and kootenai county sending people with animals. they knew the conditions there. its been in the news before. it was probably very difficult to turn the animals away. maybe the shelters should go to court and be held accountable also. they helped compound the problem. come on shelters, step up to the plate..... "

" Consider that these people did not ignore the stray cat problem as so many do, and although they were not successful in doing something about it that is a lot more than so many others. I try to spay or neuter any stray feline that comes around & get it some vaccinations but I have yet to be able to find a home for any of those strays. What is a person supposed to do if they can't just take a gun out and shoot someone else's thoughtless behavior, even if that was a moral option. "

" I feel sorry for the kitties - but I also feel sorry for the operators. I volunteered at a no kill animal shelter, and it is so difficult to get funding and also to get legitimate adoptors. People want cute, little kittens and when they grow up to be big, beautiful cats they are tossed aside like garbage. The shelter that I volunteered at could have adopted kittens 24/7 but it seems few people want to adopt a full-grown cat. "

" This is exactly why we need a responsible spay/neuter program as well as a network of fosters to be a backup for sanctuaries such as Camelot that financially cannot continue to be a place of last resort for the animals who are too ill to be adoptable. How could the Humane Society (was it local or the National Humane Society) able to pass the sanctuary last year and then discover it was not healthy this year. How on earth could this be allowed to occur. just my 2 cents. "

" These people are mentally ill. They hoard animals like some people hoard stuff. The laws in Idaho and Bonner County concerning animal control and the ability are what need to be changed. Also, there's that big problem of WHO pays for this operation. While people scream about paying taxes, where do you think the money comes from to pay for any government agency to fix a problem that many folks say is their personal constitutional right? So, maybe it is time for everyone to understand the reality of these problems and understand that it costs money to fix....your money! "

" Let us not forget the grand principle of Don Quixote in regards the cat sanctuary issue. Regardless of these final results, the folks did start out with a "noble" enterprise: the saving of lost little kittie lives. (I'm a dog person) But, like so many do-good sceames, exhaustion and endless expense, and the battleing of bureauocracy has taken it's final toll on the endeavor. With the foreclosure of the property, how much more sad could it get for these cat saviors who failed in the end, anyway. At least follow the trail of tears back to its beginning, and give the cat sanctuary folks at least a nod for their futile efforts for all of these years. There's plenty of kitties in the past that DID benefit from the sanctuary's efforts. Better than a skeleton in the drainage ditch, isn't it? "

" There is much more to this story than y'all know, heard and saw...the amount of time, energy, love, devotions, tears and money involved is tremendous...calls came in from all over the county from folks for help to rescue stray, abandoned, sick animals, yet so little help and funding to help care for them...what has been broadcasted on the news/internet is not the full story at all. the conditions were not optimal or sanitary for many reasons...lack of funding, lack of honest and dependable help and water problems stemming from a well not put in correctly to prevent leaching of harmful lead and nitrates...non of which is the owners fault. It is very difficult to keep up with medical needs of these rescued animals that, by the way, came from much worse conditions and would have suffered and died nasty deaths if not for voa, with limited funds and help. While what y'all have seen and heard appears horrific, there is another side to this. Please do not judge what you do not know fully. "

" If these were conditions had a start towards thissituatuon, why wasn't something done about it last year before so many cats were affected? This is not only the faulot of the owners, it is also the responsiblity of anyone that was aware of the situation last year. The only thing is that you could go home at night and not think about while the owners had to stay and try and take care of the mess. Shame on all of you for abusing these cats in this manner. Also the owners should have asked for comunity help if they couldn't afford to take care of all these beautiful little babies that had no one to talk for them. These cats must have come from the community so chip in and do your part, not stand by and say how bad the people who tried were. "

" What I’d like to know is why in heaven’s name the Humane Society of the United States left these poor animals to suffer and die in these conditions since October 2005? That’s the last donation I make to them!! Sammie Lewis "

" I am surprised the county took so long with their investigation..How many died while the county drug their feet "