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The Suffolk County SPCA charged a Bayport woman with animal cruelty for allowing her 14 cats and two dogs to live in squalor.
SPCA detectives charged Laura Nordstrom, 57, with multiple misdemeanor animal cruelty charges, alleging she failed to provide a habitable living environment for her many pets, said Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk SPCA.
Assisted by Suffolk’s police and sheriff’s departments, SPCA detectives executed a search warrant on Monday, Nov. 6, and found that many of the animals there were underweight, dehydrated and covered in urine.
“The lack of habitability was evidenced by the extensive amount of urine, feces, mold and mildew strewn about the home,” the SPCA said in a statement. “And the air quality inside the home where the animals were found was so poor and punctuated by the smell of ammonia that investigators had difficulty breathing in that environment.”
Staff from the non-profit Paws Unite People assisted in the rescue.
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Nordstrom was arrested and released. She is scheduled to appear at First District Court in Central Islip on Nov. 24.
