Three people in Halfmoon, New York are charged with animal neglect. Earl J. Millard, Mary A. Ryan and Arthur C. Millard were living in a trailer with 134 cats.
Authorities were alerted to the situation when they received a complaint from an animal hospital about the condition of a cat brought to the hospital. The cat was brought to the hospital by its owner in such poor condition, it later died.
Law enforcement began an investigation that led them to the trailer where the three lived. When State Troopers arrived at the trailer, they found two cats already dead.
Nineteen of the cats removed from the trailer had to be euthanized. Of the remaining cats, eight were adopted and sixty-seven are in foster homes, including pregnant cats, mothers with kittens and kittens too small to be spayed or neutered. The remaining thirty-eight cats are available for adoption.
Earl and Arthur Millard are father and son and Mary Ryan is Earl's sister-in-law. They say they rescued cats from the streets in Troy and from around the trailer park.
Neighbors say the cats were not neutered and spayed and they mated underneath the trailer and had litters that are now running around the trailer park.
The Millards and Ryan are each charged with one count of failure to provide proper sustenance, animal neglect and failing to provide animals with vaccinations which is a violation of public health law.
Rescuing animals is admirable if that is really what they were doing. It appears they allowed the cats to continue growing the population. They obviously could not afford to feed and care for them but continued to allow them to have litter after litter.
The eccentric trio will need to find a new home. Living in those conditions is unsanitary and code enforcement later condemned the trailer.
Peace
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