
From the Fort Collins Coloradoan:
"Officers wearing hazmat suits found dead rabbits between couch cushions and packed into freezers at the evacuated home of a Pinewood Springs woman after this fall’s floods.
Katherine Von Meister, 51, is charged with cruelty against 111 rabbits found alive in her 697-square-foot home days after September’s catastrophic floods forced people to flee the mountain community northwest of Lyons. But she said Wednesday the circumstances aren’t her fault, and she’s on a mission for peace.
Larimer Humane Society has adopted out or transferred all but 10 of the rabbits, upsetting Von Meister. She said the enormous number of criminal counts, carrying a maximum sentence of more than 160 years if she’s convicted on all of them, is part of a government agenda to stop her galactic work.
After finding the rabbits in the home and garage, living among urine and feces, officials put Von Meister on a three-day psychiatric hold. She said she was found to be mentally healthy.
“I am a minister, I am a healer, and I am probably the most emotionally-balanced person on the planet,†she told the Coloradoan.
She said the situation at her home got especially out of hand after September’s floods cut electricity to her house for six days. A Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy discovered the mess Sept. 19, and animal control officers removed the rabbits by helicopter a day later.
Von Meister said she’s kept rabbits — healthy, clean and neutered — for 18 years. But in the past year, technological “attacks were so bad, I did make the mistake of not neutering them†to protect them, she told the Coloradoan on Wednesday. The result was more rabbits than could live comfortably in the space, she said.
In the attacks Von Meister referenced, a dark entity would “send a ship that shot a red laser beam through the ceiling at the bunny,†according to her statements in a case report from the Humane Society. The rabbit victims were placed in freezers for protection, until they might later be revived, she said.
Von Meister explained the circumstances to animal control, at one point taking responsibility for the catastrophic floods because King of Swords, a secret government army, destroyed roads to stop her from finishing her peace work, according to the report.
The Larimer County District Attorney’s Office filed for a restraining order to keep her away from Larimer Humane Society, which reported as many as nine calls in one day with enough visits to cause a disruption, according to motions filed in Larimer County Court in Loveland.
Von Meister said the charges against her are “absolutely bogus.†She said in a court filing that a rabbit euthanized by animal control didn’t deserve to die. It was the “guardian and protector of the whole house,†she said.
“He was in the closet for his protection, with a couple of friends, and very happy with it ... His spirit told me in early September that he had been wrongfully killed, and we would both like an apology,†she said in the filing.
She loves the rabbits, animals with the “purest essence of soul,†said Von Meister, who’s been living in a hotel.
“Because they’re so pure, they connect us to our hearts, to our galactic neighborhoods, to God,†she said.
Her case is set for a Nov. 20 motions hearing and a Dec. 18 arraignment in Larimer County Court in Loveland."