“Even my colleagues have never seen anything like it, they were stunned,” says Styrian state veterinarian Peter Wagner after major surgery in Murtal (Styria). 128 animals were rescued from a house completely covered in garbage! The owner must have been completely overwhelmed.
It was a coincidence that this huge number of animals in the Murtal district was noticed at all – and the sometimes bad attitude. The owner had to seek help due to a medical emergency, thus exposing the animal hoarding disaster.
According to Wagner, 128 (!) animals were found by two official veterinarians on duty. Dogs, cats, parrots, turtles, chinchillas, fish, chickens, ducks and geese.
“We discovered geckos in the mud”
The conditions under which they were kept in the clearly destroyed house would have been appalling at times. “Cats were locked in terrariums, sometimes there was a lack of food and water, we still found geckos in the mud,” said animal rights activist Eva Wolfsberger, who spent hours in the relief effort with her entire team at Aus Liebe zum Tier. – Murtal”. And the lady who lives in the house with her elderly husband knows it too.
“She is actually a huge animal lover. She must have overcome everything. That then developed into ‘hoarding’,” says Wolfsberger. Because an exemption has been signed, the animals can be transported quickly.
Second location in Eastern Styria
A second harrowing environment is Eastern Styria. Here, three dogs and ten cats were rescued from circumstances that astonished observers. Cats are said to have partly swept in their own feces in a wooden hut in the garden where they were locked up. Clean water was missing, as was daylight. Waste, feces and urine everywhere.
A frightened shepherd apparently lived on six square feet of concrete in the basement. There was also a charge of animal cruelty.
Source: Krone
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