Well this explains a lot.

About a month ago, I went to look at a home in Eastern Connecticut that had been foreclosed....my brother and I went inside, and I as I am wheeling around I see two piles of what turned out to be cat turds. In the back laundry room a window that had been left open with a screen had been clawed open, which also explained the various insect life we found in the place. The people had obviously left the kitty in the home when they bailed. I am glad we didnt actually find a dead cat, or worse, one crazed with hunger that probably would have attacked us. I would have reported the former owners, but then again, they have enough problems.