Every now and again you hear a story on the news about an animal hoarder. Yesterday 46 cats and 16 dogs were removed from a home in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. Many of the animals were sick, covered in urine and feces, some had difficulty walking. I've heard anywhere between $43,000 and $93,000 worth of fines for animal cruelty and the the cost of the clean up of the residence.
The homeowner was also apparently hoarding a feces-covered mentally ill woman in her basement.
Strangely, I didn't know the mentally ill woman.
But I did know the hoarder.
She's a former coworker.
Stench Leads Rescusers to House with 62 Pets, Feces Coated Woman
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PERHAPS HER OWN early life as an unwanted orphan prompted Jerri Diane Sueck to take hordes of cats and dogs into her Northeast rowhouse, where animal-welfare agents seized them yesterday.
But officials of the Pennsylvania SPCA said Sueck, 51 - a schoolteacher known to be into animal rescue "big time," according to someone who knows her - carried it too far.
They said she was housing 46 cats and 16 dogs in conditions so bad that welfare workers gagged at the stench.
The smell was so bad a mental-health worker and one of the neighbors feared there might be a dead body inside the house.
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