OBITUARY Drummer Donald Tardy Is A Pussycat At Heart
May 12, 2011, 13 years ago
Aaron Oberlin from TBO.com is reporting:
Donald Tardy has two passions.
His music – he's the drummer for the death-metal band OBITUARY. And his cats – more than 140 of them.
They live in woods, behind shopping plazas and in dumpsters. They scrounge for food, scavenging rodents and trash, and fend off raccoons.
They're feral cats, and according to the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, they're among an estimated 200,000 roaming Hillsborough County.
Tardy tends to more than 20 colonies, some with as few as two cats, others with nearly 30. He carefully protects their locations; some people are capable of unimaginable cruelty, while others find colonies a convenient place to dump unwanted cats. Every day he checks on "my gang," feeding the cats and, when necessary, getting them veterinary care.
"It's kind of wild when you think about it: This crazy metal dude who head bangs and plays death metal spends hours every day feeding and caring for wild cats," says Tardy, whose top-selling band tours the world. "It cracks me up just thinking about."Read more here.
