More than 20 dogs,
cats and birds, some dead and
others diseased, were seized
by animal control officers Wednesday from a house that was described as resembling a scene from a horror movie.Officials said the call was one of the worst cases of animal
abuse they had ever encountered.A search turned up two dead chickens and one dead guinea fowl inside the house and a rotting carcass on the kitchen counter that could not be identified as a dog,
cat or anything else, said Clara Gundy, executive director of the Humane Society of Central Brevard.
Outside
cats are killed
by cars, lost or stolen, exposed to fatal diseases, attacked
by other animals,
abused by cruel people, poisoned, injured in fights
by other cats defending their territories, injured or killed from belts or rotating blades from under the hood of cars when the engine is started (
cats often crawl under car hoods to escape the cold in winter).