More than 140 animals were seized from an Indiana home, including 45 dogs and 12 cats, WXIN reported.
The homeowner in Morgan County is not only facing animal cruelty charges, but also drug-dealing charges, the television station reported. The Morgan County Sheriff's Office originally called out to the home to investigate an overdose, the television station reported.
In addition to the dogs and cats, officials from the Morgan County Humane Society said they found 79 birds and five fish at the house, WXIN reported. Officials seized the animals from the home of Joseph Smith on Nov. 25, WBIW reported.
"The dogs outside were living in mud," Humane Society employee Delaney Foster told WXIN. "The cats were living in their feces. They didn't have any litter boxes. There were dogs kenneled out by a garage that did not have any food or water access, no shelter."
"It did seem to be a puppy mill situation," Jacqueline Kaufman, outreach coordinator for the Humane Society, told WXIN. said. "We don't know how long they had been there."
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