PETITION TARGET: Old Saybrook Police Department
In a heartbreaking scene of neglect, officials found over 100 dead animals — seemingly left to rot in cages amid piles of garbage and feces — in an abandoned home in Connecticut, according to local news.
The victims included cats, rabbits, skunks, chickens, opossums, a squirrel, and a dove. Not a single animal was found alive.
The bodies and trash were piled so high and packed so tightly that cleanup crews had to dig their way in with a shovel to enter the building. Sadly, more corpses may be recovered as cleanup efforts continue.
“When we started, we couldn’t even walk in there,” an employee with the cleanup crew said.
The woman who lived in the house was reportedly evicted in September. Law enforcement told local news that the person responsible could face one count of animal cruelty for every animal who was found dead in the home.
The suffering these animals must have experienced as they were left to wither away in confinement, surrounded by their own waste and garbage, is horrifying.
Sign our petition urging the Old Saybrook Police Department to find the person responsible for hoarding these animals and abandoning them to die.
