Scores of starving cats and a dog have been rescued from a US home where officials said one of the neglected animals had begun eating the foot of a dead man found next to his mother. School teacher Herbert Walden, 74, died of a heart attack at the end of June and lay undiscovered at his home for more than a week.
His 94-year-old mother Jane, unable to care for herself, died shortly after from dehydration. She was found on Saturday. Erie County deputy coroner Korac Timon said 16 cats and a pet dog living in the home became trapped after the Waldens died.
At least one of the cats began eating Mr Walden's foot. The home was strewn with garbage, opened tins of cat food and had no running water. A hallway was lined with buckets full of human waste.
Human society officers found four dead cats in a basement and a dead dog in the front yard. "We see these environments ... but this is indescribable. This is as bad as anything I have ever seen," said Joe Grisanti, executive director for the Humane Society of Northwest Pennsylvania.
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check stories on stray dogs in Irak.... carnivorous too...
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That scene just sounds lke one corner of Hell like even the master Down There coudn't even imagine...!
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Sad that animals were living and dying in those conditions.
Sadder that humans were, too.
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Why do they keep so many animals when they can barely take care of themselves?
His mother couldn't take care of herself? Is living in filth and excrement now considered suitable housekeeping?
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