Dead Cats Found In Freezer
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:45 pm
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MANSFIELD, Ohio -- At the Richland County Animal Shelter workers carefully watch cats placed in isolation.
"Most of them have the upper respiratory infection," Shelter Supervisor Melissa Houghton says.
And Some of them like these up here, have the thinning hair from the fleas," she said attracting our attention to two cats in another cage.
The animals are among the survivors taken from a Mansfield home on Wednesday.
Responding to a complaint, humane society officials say they found 32 living cats inside the two story home in which the woman who had them had moved only eight weeks earlier.
What was most shocking were the bodies of 35 more cats, 30 of them kittens, found in an upright freezer.
"She actually had them in individual ziplock bags like the kittens in freezer bags and the adults in large plastic bags she said she was saving them to bury them."
The story continues on to say:
Humane officials say there are mental conditions that might have contributed to the "hoarding" of the dead animals, which Houghton says could very well have died of natural causes because of the conditions and disease that some of the other cats have.
Of the 32 that were taken from the home alive, 26 have already had to be euthanized because of serious health issues, or because they were considered too wild to adopt out.
Houghton says because the woman agreed to get counseling they would not be pressing charges.
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- At the Richland County Animal Shelter workers carefully watch cats placed in isolation.
"Most of them have the upper respiratory infection," Shelter Supervisor Melissa Houghton says.
And Some of them like these up here, have the thinning hair from the fleas," she said attracting our attention to two cats in another cage.
The animals are among the survivors taken from a Mansfield home on Wednesday.
Responding to a complaint, humane society officials say they found 32 living cats inside the two story home in which the woman who had them had moved only eight weeks earlier.
What was most shocking were the bodies of 35 more cats, 30 of them kittens, found in an upright freezer.
"She actually had them in individual ziplock bags like the kittens in freezer bags and the adults in large plastic bags she said she was saving them to bury them."
The story continues on to say:
Humane officials say there are mental conditions that might have contributed to the "hoarding" of the dead animals, which Houghton says could very well have died of natural causes because of the conditions and disease that some of the other cats have.
Of the 32 that were taken from the home alive, 26 have already had to be euthanized because of serious health issues, or because they were considered too wild to adopt out.
Houghton says because the woman agreed to get counseling they would not be pressing charges.
