Caturday: What are two cats supposed to do with 300K?

Forget the Power Ball: all you really need to score a fortune is to be the pet cats of a wealthy person who leaves you all his or her money. It happened this week, but it’s hardly the first time.

It’s not that I don’t trust my dog’s financial judgment. I’m just not sure how she would go about making wise investments without opposable thumbs. Those factors apparently weren’t issues for one wealthy woman in New York. This week, The New York Post reported that Ellen Frey-Wouters, who actually died in 2015, left $300,000 to her two cats, Tiger and Troy.

The pampered kitties have been living with former home health aides to Frey-Wouters since, in the lap of luxury, we’d assume. Frey-Wouters, whose husband died in 1989 and who had no surviving children, told her lawyer she wanted to ensure her cats were properly cared for after she was gone. And we’re guessing they have been: according to the ASPCA, the average cost of caring for a cat per year is $1,070. With two, that’s $2,140 (or less if they’re sharing litter boxes and the like). So, yeah, there’s going to be a little bit of budget leftover in these lucky kitties’ case.

This is hardly the first time a wealthy pet owner has granted his or her furry family member a significant chunk of change. Hotel heiress Leona Helmsley famously left $12 million of her estate to her maltese Trouble instead of her family members (a judge later lowered the amount to $2 million). In the case reported this week, once the cats die, whatever’s left over will go to Frey Wouters’ sister in the Netherlands. How would you like to be that sister? Blown off for a pair of cats. Not to say the cats don’t deserve the best, it’s just, again, it seems they’d probably be happy with a packet of cat nip and maybe one of those fancy cat climbing towers.

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