When more than 65 cats arrived at The Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County earlier this month, they were malnourished and appeared to be severely neglected. About 10 were dead.
It was an all “hands-on deck” situation after animal control officers gave the facility’s staff a heads-up they were arriving to the shelter with the cats that had been seized from a 39-year-old woman Nov. 7. Most of the emaciated cats were found in the woman’s U-Haul truck without food and water. Two kittens were in her motel room in Tacoma, according to Pierce County Superior Court charging documents.
Prosecutors charged the woman with 10 counts of first-degree animal cruelty and one count of animal cruelty in the second-degree, failure to provide care…