Cops find 150 dead, frozen dogs in Mich. home

[blueyes]

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.

Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad said the 56-year-old man found Wednesday in the suburban Detroit home with the animals may have been living with an increasing number of dogs for up to three or four years.

"The house was in complete disarray, very cluttered and, with 100-plus dogs running around in there, very filthy," he said.

The man living in the house was taken to a hospital for observation. He has a mental impairment and had lived for years alone in the home after his parents retired to Florida, said lawyer James G. Schmier, acting as a family spokesman.

Haddad said the case could be forwarded to prosecutors for possible animal-cruelty charges.

He said 112 live dogs had been removed from the home as of Friday, and police think about five more may be hiding inside.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1684307,CST-NWS-dogs25.article

[Saffi]

That is gruesome and horrible.No-one lived around him to report it?Just shaking my head here.where the heck would he even get that many dogs.Mental problems or not the guy needs to be put away for good.

[blueyes]

Good question... Maybe he was a hermit with no family.

I wonder if they may have died from some kind of illness before he froze them...
 Seems like he had been collecting dogs for years.

[plenty]

Lets hope he had been collecting them for years and just didn't want to part with his dogs... that is a lot of dogs, but then again we had a cat lady who lived on a farm, figure there was close to 100 cats in the house, she bathed and cleaned them, though her house was a mess, she also made sure they all ate and if they had a cough she gave them Rawlieghs Cough Syrup ( I was a dealer for them at the time)  She was a nice enough lady and all she did was gardening and looking after her cats... she had many more out in the barn and yard that people dropped off when they no longer wanted them...

I think I was one of only a handful of monthly people visiting her.... she had someone doing her grocery shopping and she never left the property... She was very nice just scared of people....

[blueyes]

Lets hope he had been collecting them for years and just didn't want to part with his dogs

Yeah, really!!

we had a cat lady who lived on a farm, figure there was close to 100 cats in the house, she bathed and cleaned them

Bathing a cat can be quite a challenge! I imagine she got scratched up pretty bad doing that many.

 

[tatman]

    they need to be locked up for a very long time 

[plenty]

Amazingly she wasn't scratched up, I think they enjoyed their baths and she loved and named every single one of them....