49 animals rescued from Long Island house of horrors in what authorities are calling one of the worst cases of animal hording they’ve ever seen, as dogs were found matted and covered in maggots
- 49 animals were found trapped in cages in a Long Island home, caked in their own feces and urine
- Researchers called it “the worst” case of animal cruelty they have ever seen when they found dogs covered in maggots.
- 79-year-old hoarder Linda Hart tortured the animals in her disgusting home
Researchers found 49 animals trapped in a cage full of their own feces and urine in an elderly hoarder’s disgusting Long Island home.
Officers in Suffolk County received disturbing reports from neighbors that 79-year-old Linda Hart was torturing dogs in her Ronkonkoma home.
After obtaining a search warrant, investigators entered the home of horrors and found 49 pets locked in the filthy home, as well as thousands of maggots and flies.
The cruel woman had locked the distressed dogs in cages full of feces and urine in her house of horrors.
Hart had left the innocent puppies to become severely matted with barely an inch of room to move in what one officer described as “the worst” case of animal cruelty he has ever seen.
Researchers have found 49 animals trapped in a cage full of their own feces and urine in an elderly hoarder’s disgusting Long Island home
The cruel woman had locked the distressed dogs in cages full of feces and urine in her house of horrors
Officers in Suffolk County received disturbing reports from neighbors that 79-year-old Linda Hart was torturing dogs in her Ronkonkoma home
Some of the animals had to be hospitalized and some cages had to be cut open.
Roy Gross, head of the Suffolk SPCA, said: ‘There was not a room in the house without cages with dogs in them, including the bathroom.’
“It looks like she was a hoarder,” Gross said The mail.
Conditions in the filthy building were so bad that researchers found it difficult to breathe.
The house was condemned because the city decided that the house was so disgusting that it was uninhabitable.
Six parrots were also found living in appalling conditions in the dirty house.
Gross said the dogs were discovered in such dire condition that they won’t be ready for adoption for some time.
Some of the animals had to be hospitalized and some cages had to be cut open
Hart had left the innocent puppies to become severely matted with barely an inch of room to move in what one officer described as “the worst” case of animal cruelty he has ever seen
The city decided that the house was so disgusting that it was uninhabitable
Conditions in the filthy building were so bad that researchers found it difficult to breathe
Gross said the dogs were discovered in such dire condition that they won’t be ready for adoption for some time
Most of them were taken to the Islip Animal Shelter for evaluation.
“I don’t know what to say other than it’s just a terrible, terrible situation that these animals have suffered so much in that kind of environment,” he added.
Hart was hit with 49 cases of animal abuse on Tuesday. She is expected to appear in First District Court in Central Islip later this month