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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue May 28, 2013, 12:36 PM May 2013

(YUCK!) South Carolina family arrested for 80 dead animals inside home

mother and three sisters in South Carolina have been charged with ill treatment of animals and failure to bury animals properly after deputies discovered more than 80 dead in their home.

Laurens County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Judy Stiles told WYFF that deputies were in the process of evicting 58-year-old Rebecca Keith, 33-year-old Amanda Keith and 31-year-old Sarah Keith over the weekend when they came across dozens of dead animals, including “[d]ogs, cats, birds and even baby deer.”

“We came in to clean up the kitchen, there was a dead bird in the kitchen, it was half rotten,” landlord Jason English explained to the station. “We opened up the freezer. Inside the freezer, unwrapped, unprotected — anything — laying next to their own food, were ducks, baby deer, hatchlings — just came out of the egg. And they had like cups with dozens of baby chickens in it. Inside the rooms, they had ferrets.”

But the women insisted to WYFF that they loved the animals and were only storing them so they could dispose of them properly.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/28/south-carolina-family-arrested-for-80-dead-animals-inside-home/

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(YUCK!) South Carolina family arrested for 80 dead animals inside home (Original Post) Playinghardball May 2013 OP
Hoarders.....the animal hoarders are the worst... msanthrope May 2013 #1
Animal hoarders just don't seem to see the suffering Warpy May 2013 #5
But... Aristus May 2013 #2
Holy crap! HappyMe May 2013 #3
I hate these people get the red out May 2013 #4
Send them all straight to the loony bin. kestrel91316 May 2013 #6
hoarders are the worst, nothing worse than kids forced to live in these messes loli phabay May 2013 #7
Anybody that's forced to live there HappyMe May 2013 #9
yup but kids are the worse, ive left a house literally covered in fleas. eek loli phabay May 2013 #10
I have dead animals in my freezer too Duer 157099 May 2013 #8
grocery stores have entire departments full of dead animal parts. where's the beef? nt msongs May 2013 #11

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
5. Animal hoarders just don't seem to see the suffering
Tue May 28, 2013, 12:48 PM
May 2013

caused by overcrowding and diseases enabled by overcrowding, they all have some sort of messianic zeal about "saving" the animals.

At least these were mostly dead animals. It's the first case I've seen of hoarding animal carcasses.

I hope these people get some sort of treatment, but I'm not altogether hopeful about that.

 

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)
7. hoarders are the worst, nothing worse than kids forced to live in these messes
Tue May 28, 2013, 01:33 PM
May 2013

Hate having to go into homes like this.

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