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| Lannie Price and her daughter Amanda Price |
Amanda Price, 33, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of abandoning/cruelty to two or three animals.
Her mother, 68-year-old Lannie Price, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of abandoning/cruelty to 10 or more animals.
The plea deals don't include sentence agreements, but Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney Gretchen Whitmer said her office will request Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina impose significant restitution at sentencing and will likely ask for mental health treatment.
A message left seeking comment from Richard Williams, the Prices' attorney, was not returned Wednesday.
Authorities removed the cats from the home in the Groesbeck neighborhood in June a last year. Officials have said that of the 126 cats found in the home, 101 were alive and 25 were deceased.
About 80 of the cats found alive were later euthanized because of health problems, officials said.
Both Amanda and Lannie Price were sent to the state's Center for Forensic Psychology last year to determine if they were competent to stand trial.
Amanda Price was found competent about two months later. Lannie Price was determined to be incompetent to stand trial and was ordered to undergo outpatient treatment. She was found competent in May.
"Case like these raise a lot of different issues," Whitmer said. "There are a lot of issues that play into someone who has 100 cats in their home."
The Prices were renting the Lansing Township home at the time.
Last month, Township officials issued a citation to the house's owner, a California woman. She could face legal action if she doesn't submit a corrective action plan in writing that would make the home habitable.
(Lansing State Journal - July 14, 2016)
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