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Animal cruelty police have charged a Manorville woman with animal cruelty for keeping her horse and two dogs in deplorable living conditions at her home, the Suffolk County SPCA said.
Inside the home of Judith Seeman, 70, detectives found her 3-year-old black and white female shepherd-type dog Pine and her 4-year-old brown male shepherd-type dog Cody confined to a small room with noxious air and an overwhelming stench of urine, rot, ammonia and feces, Suffolk SPCA Chief Roy Gross said.
The floor inside the dogs’ room was covered in wet and dry urine and feces stains, dirt, grime, filth, spiderwebs and fly excrement. Food and water were not present for the dogs, officials said.
Outside in a barn, detectives found Seeman’s horse, Dakota, in a severely neglected state, Gross said. The horse’s hooves were atrophied, necrotic and emitting a foul odor. Her stall was wet, with little bedding, and covered in wet and dry feces.
SPCA detectives received assistance at Seeman’s house on Friday from Suffolk County Police, members of Brookhaven Town Code Enforcement, the Brookhaven Fire Marshal, Brookhaven Animal Control officers and the Suffolk District Attorney’s office’s B.E.A.S.T. Unit, county Adult Protective Services, and a veterinarian.
The animals were voluntarily surrendered with the help of 13 Hands Equine Rescue and Brookhaven Animal Control. Seeman, charged with several misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty, is scheduled to appear in First District Court in Central Islip on Nov. 21.
