Well, now. If you’re planning to rent your Gabriola house soon, you might want to peek at this story in The Daily News about a tenant who hoarded cats.

It’s going to cost the owner of a Cedar home approximately $50,000 to clean up the mess left by her cat-hoarding tenant.

Nanaimo businesswoman Irene Wenngatz owns the Lofthouse Road home where SPCA officials rescued 94 cats and kittens from deplorable conditions on Monday. (…)

Wenngatz doesn’t know where her former tenant is living now but has heard that she is trying to rent a home on Gabriola Island.

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(Emphasis mine.)

Oh gosh, that’s just all we need. You’ve probably already heard of the Gabriola tenants from hell, who left enormous problems and many unpaid bills behind when they were finally evicted. Let’s hope for no more of that nonsense.

UPDATE: SPCA rescues hoarded cats on Gabriola