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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Several residents of a Great Kills block were sickened by the stench Friday morning when bags of used cat litter were dumped outside a home and a landlord and tenant pointed fingers at each other.

Police responded around 9:07 a.m. after multiple bags of used cat litter were dumped outside a two-family home at 19 Trent St., causing a "more than putrid" odor to spew out onto the block.

One resident even wore a face mask after he became sick.

According to tenants Norman and Bianca Jackson, the waste had been contained in garbage pails on the side of the home for the last six months. But overnight, they said, someone dumped the used litter and removed the pails.

"I can't breathe out there," Jackson said Friday inside his home. He and his wife have to walk past the feces to access their downstairs apartment. "I don't do well with smells," Jackson said.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the feces dumping after the owner of the home, Catherine Finn, and another tenant, Marie Torres, who lives upstairs, each told police at the scene that the other was responsible.

Each woman admitted to owning at least five cats, but accused the other of owning dozens more.

Ms. Finn, the landlord, does not live in the home, which had a large cat flag flying outside her tenant's front door Friday morning.

"I don't even say how many [cats I own]," Ms. Finn told the Advance as she held a keychain and a datebook, both adorned with images of felines. "I have five or six."

Ms. Torres told the Advance she owns 10 cats, most of which she said she inherited. She said she met her landlord, Ms. Finn, five years ago at the vet's office when both had sick cats. They became friends, and Ms. Torres became a tenant of Ms. Finn last year with help from Section 8 government funding.

Ms. Finn said she is now attempting to evict Ms. Torres through a suit in city Housing Court, West Brighton. The two will appear again in court on May 20, Ms. Finn said.

An NYPD spokesperson said officers filed a police report.

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