The Pennsylvania SPCA last week removed 33 living cats from two separate apartments inside a rowhome in Frankford.
The SPCA’s Humane Law Enforcement Officers, acting on a tip to the SPCA’s cruelty hotline, executed a search warrant at the residence on the first floor of an apartment on the 4400 block of Griscom St.
The first-floor residence was found to be in a filthy, feces-covered, urine-soaked condition. Seventeen living cats were removed from the property, and two additional cats were found to be deceased. Additionally, SPCA officers found 16 cats to be living on the third floor of the same building.
All animals were surrendered to the SPCA, and taken to its Erie Avenue headquarters to be examined and cared for by the shelter’s veterinary team. The cats will remain in the care of the SPCA until they are deemed healthy enough for adoption.The investigation is ongoing, and charges are pending.
“The Pennsylvania SPCA is the only animal welfare organization in Pennsylvania equipped to handle cases involving such a large number of animals,” said Jerry Buckley, CEO of the SPCA. “Our Humane Law Enforcement Officers work diligently to remove animals from situations of cruelty and neglect like this on a daily basis.”
The SPCA recently created The George Bengal Fund to continue the work of the organization’s director of Humane Law Enforcement, who died Saturday of cancer. It was Bengal’s last request that the work to end animal cruelty continues at the SPCA. To support putting an end to cases of animal cruelty, visit bengalfund.kintera.org
Anyone with information about this case, or other cases involving animal cruelty, should call the SPCA’s cruelty hotline toll-free at 866–601-SPCA. Tips can be left anonymously. ••
