Eric Uzelac, who runs an estate sale business, said the home has helped him get back on his feet after a long illness.

ARLINGTON, Texas — As the owner of Junk in the Trunk, an estate liquidation company, Eric Uzelac makes a living selling other people’s stuff.

However, when he was asked to sell the contents of a home in Arlington, nothing prepared him for what was inside.

“I have never seen a collection that is this catastrophic,” Uzelac laughed.

The home is a modest single-story, but step inside and you’ll find a story and a half.

Uzelac says the homeowner, an elderly woman who recently died, had collected thousands upon thousands of cats.

“I think I said ‘me-wow,’” Uzelac joked.

Almost every item in the home was adorned with a cat, right down to the handle on the toilet.

“I often wonder if a real cat came into this house, what it would think?” Uzelac questioned. “‘What does she do to cats in here? Am I going to become a teapot?’”

When Uzelac let the cat out of the bag and posted the sale on social media, a line began to form around the corner and down the street, all people looking for some cat-isfaction.

But no one needed it more than he did.

“I sometimes look at it like, the curator of all this was spending this time like putting a rehab program together for me,” Uzelac said. “It’s kind of weird.”

A couple of years ago, while traveling, Uzelac got pneumonia and fell into a coma. Unsure he’d ever wake up, loved ones started saying goodbye.

“It’s still a little hard for me to talk about my coma,” he said.

When he woke up and left the hospital 10 months later, this was his first client, which he said was cat-thartic.

“It gave me an opportunity to pick up the pieces after I woke up,” Uzelac said.

He says the house. and people’s reaction to it brought back a joy he’d lost. He got to know the owner and appreciate her oddities, including, perhaps, the most unlikely oddity of all.

“There were no living cats in the home when she passed,” he said. “There was only a little dog in recent years.”

As if that wasn’t unusual enough, across the street is a home adorned with Mickey Mouse figurines.

“The crazy cat lady had a little dog and she lives across from a mouse house,” Uzelac said.