Authorities recently discovered a home in Newton Township, a rural part of Calhoun County south of Battle Creek, that had 71 dogs living in hazardous conditions in a one story home.
Sadly, the police also discovered that there was one dog that had been deceased in the backyard when the Calhoun County sheriff’s office responded to a report of possible animal neglect on Tuesday, just after 11 AM.
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After a search of the Home showed the hazardous conditions with multiple sick animals, the police ended up taking about 68 dogs from the home and taking them to the animal shelter. In a video uploaded to Facebook from Wood TV8, Calhoun County Sheriff, Steven Hinkley described the situation:
This was a single story residence, rather small, most of the animals were found inside of the home. Now that we know there were 71 dogs. It’s hard to have them in one bedroom, so they were all throughout the house so you can imagine that living conditions were extremely extremely poor, so it was a terrible terrible situation for humans and pets…