Fifty-five animals found in apartment
ST. LOUIS -- Fifty-five additional animals -- 54 cats and a Chihuahua -- have been rescued from a small apartment occupied by the same woman accused a week ago of hoarding about 200 animals on a farm property, the Humane Society of Missouri said Tuesday. The latest animals were taken Monday from a one-bedroom apartment in Union, about 45 miles west of St. Louis. Union police found the animals in crates stacked floor to ceiling, the smell in the apartment overwhelming. Some crates contained up to three cats, authorities said. Many of the animals are suffering from eye and respiratory problems. Their prognosis is not yet known. On Aug. 3, about 200 animals living in "horrific" conditions were taken from a 22-acre property in nearby St. Clair owned by the same woman. Those animals included 116 dogs, 83 cats, two horses, a mule, a guinea pig, a duck and a goose.