{"id":4364,"date":"2011-06-16T06:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2011-06-16T06:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:19:34","slug":"morning-read-pet-hoarders-raided-in-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/16\/morning-read-pet-hoarders-raided-in-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Pet hoarders raided in North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two regional newspapers are reporting this week on efforts to resolve what appear to be pet hoarding cases, one in Plattsburgh &#8220;affecting more than three dozen cats&#8221; and the other in the Washington County town of Cambridge, where 57 animals were seized.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1678755948\/Rescue-launched-for-hoarded-felines-in-City-of-Plattsburgh\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When we pulled into the driveway, we could smell the house,&#8221; Plattsburgh City Police Lt. Scott Beebie said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the west-end home, officers discovered a major case of  animal hoarding and launched what has become a multi-agency effort to  rescue and care for the felines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was essentially a feral-cat colony in the confines of a house,&#8221; Dr.  Erik Eaglefeather said from Eagles Nest Veterinary Hospital, where the  rescued cats are in his care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this from the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_7d9fe19a-979c-11e0-b518-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Animals were found in cages littered with feces and with no indication they had been routinely fed or provided with water, according to Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Some cages blocked other cages, and the tank water for turtles was black and brown, Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>Pets ranged from exotic birds to cats, dogs, chinchillas and turtles. Most were found in the single-family home. Several dogs were caged in a garage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is challenging stuff for law enforcement, who often lack the people-power and the expertise to deal with big animal crises like this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also tough for animal lovers and the shelters they support.\u00a0 It can be overwhelming when sudden influxes of sick and feral critters come in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two regional newspapers are reporting this week on efforts to resolve what appear to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}