It all started with a call around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14. The aim was to check the living conditions of the animals housed by this association. What the team observed there led them to grab every hairball they could find.
Once they entered the house, the responders found more than 70 animals gathered in a deplorable environment. Photos released by the shelter that conducted the rescue show some of them sitting in small, dirty cages.
The team wanted to be clear about the extent of its intervention: “ We seized every animal we could find. “The condition of the survivors was cause for concern, since, specifies the same publication, ” cSome females are pregnant or lactating, most animals have upper respiratory infections and other medical problems. »
“ Some animals were in cages, piled up in their own feces »
According to the local channel WBBJthe shelter seized 48 cats and approximately 19 ferrets, to which were added 1 guinea pig and 1 dog.
For Carl Campbelldirector of Brownsville Haywood County Animal Shelterthe nature of the situation was beyond doubt. “ It was a true state of compulsive accumulation », she confides to WBBJbefore describing the scene that awaited his team: “ Some animals were in cages, piled high in their own excrement. »
The dwelling itself does not escape his judgment. “ For me, a human cannot live in the situation these animals lived inshe continues, the person should not live in this house. It should be declared unsanitary. »
The animals are entrusted to several associations
What will become of these survivors? Given their condition, the shelter warned that they would not be offered for adoption. They are entrusted to reputable rescue organizations with veterinary credentials, where they recover.
The case resonates all the more in the community as the person concerned was known as the head of a rescue structure.