Queens Apartment Horror as Rescuers Find Forty Eight Dogs in Small Unit
I want you to picture this: you open the door to a one-bedroom apartment in Queens—and the first thing that hits you isn’t the sight. It’s the smell. Overpowering ammonia, thick in the air. Your eyes sting. You can barely breathe and then you see them.
Forty-eight dogs. Not small ones. Full-grown Belgian Malinois, hiding in closets, stacked in cages. Some squeezed into kitchen drawers. Every inch of space covered in filth—feces, urine, piles of debris. No sunlight, no ventilation, just fear and chaos.
This isn’t a scene from some forgotten corner of the world. This happened in Forest Hills, right here in New York City. And if you’re thinking, “How did no one notice?”—you’re not alone. I thought the same thing…