250 Sick, Dead Animals Seized From Ky. Garage

31 Animals Found Dead, 37 More Euthanized

CARROLL COUNTY, Ky. -- More than 250 animals were seized from a garage in Carroll County, including some dead and many sick ones, WLKY-TV in Louisville, Ky., reported.

They were found in the town of Worthville.

The animals included chickens, rabbits, ducks, a quail, a peacock and two turkeys.

"They were pretty horrific -- feces everywhere. We did find more dead animals when we got there laying around," said Carroll County Animal Support director Tammie Crawford.

Among the problems the team found were chickens with maggots in their feathers, ducks crowded together in cages, animals with respiratory problems, underfed and live animals in the same unclean cages with dead animals, many of them badly decomposed.

“As we got the birds out, we would find one laying there that they were just trampling all over,” said Crawford.

Thirty-one of the animals were found dead. Thirty-seven more had to be euthanized and many of the rest of them were underfed or ill.

The local health department said the owner of the animals, Donnie Cannon, has been issued a citation.

Police said Cannon had an auction service and he would acquire the animals for resale.

Crawford said this incident isn't the first time there's been a complaint about Cannon..." More

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The animals that were seized in Marion County’s largest animal cruelty case in recent memory are recovering. The animals’ former Citra owners will likely not fare as well.

Marion County spokeswoman Christy Jergens said Animal Services officials will soon recommend to the State Attorney’s Office charges against the couple that allegedly kept the 432 live animals in horrifically filthy conditions until their rescue last month.

“They have not been arrested but we are planning to go ahead with charges,” Jergens said.

“With so many animals, we’ve been trying to get them all settled in, get them vaccinated. The focus has been on that,” she said.

Along with the living animals at the 7680 NE 192 Pl. home of Ileana Verguizas and Andrew Gonzalo Perez, 15 dead animals were also found.

Some of the animals, which included dogs, cats, goats, quail, chickens, geese, ducks, sheep, rabbits, snakes, parrots and turtles, were found by county investigators to be living in filthy cages and pens, and their fur matted with feces and riddled with fleas. Of the living animals, almost half were kept inside the 2,200 square-foot home..." More