Appalling Problem... In some areas, stray cats and kittens are everywhere and, rather like the large
urban fox population, very few of them are fed, so their
numbers are similarly controlled by disease, starvation and road accidents.
Tragically, the house has been damaged a
number of times by severe floods from the nearby
Fox River (since, although Mies designed the house with sufficient clearance for floods,
urban and industrial development upriver in ensuing years caused the river to flood more extensively than Mies had anticipated — click here for some horrifying pictures of some recent flooding).