A U-Haul van was found in a California Taco Bell parking lot on Sunday evening crawling with cats. Officials said the van contained 134 cats, most in distress and about one-fifth of them dead.
Disturbing images provided by the Merced County Sheriff’s Office show cats pressed up against the front windshield of the vehicle. More of the animals — some kittens as young as a week old — were found squeezed into cardboard boxes in the back.
A Long Beach woman was arrested on 93 counts of animal cruelty after 106 “extremely emaciated” cats and 28 dead cats were taken from the van, according to the Sheriff’s Office…