The cats and kittens brought to the shelter had a heavy infestation of fleas but received treatments that killed the insects in less than an hour, said animal control Supervisor Lanny Hall.
He said city officials were researching their legal options to enter the home and secure the rest of the cats. The estimate of the number of animals in the home was based on information from neighbors, he said.
Hall said he went to the home after neighbors complained of foul odors. The woman would not let him in the home, he said. She later brought the 18 cats to the shelter, he said.
He said the woman would be ticketed for unsanitary keeping of animals and possibly charged with animal cruelty.
He said the odor from the home was strong even from the outside.
“She shouldn’t even be in that house,” Hall said.
Animal rescue organizations had taken all but a handful of the cats from the shelter, he said. They will likely be in foster homes until they are well enough to be adopted. One cat was too ill to be rescued and was euthanized, he said.
With so many cats with fleas, the tiny insects were everywhere at the shelter, Hall said.
“I felt like I had them in my beard,” he said.
(Southgate News Herald-Aug 18, 2014)
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