{"id":23369,"date":"2025-06-29T02:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23369\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:25:11","slug":"115-dogs-found-in-brooklyn-hoarder-home-on-the-road-to-recovery-with-love-and-care-from-animal-rescuers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23369\/","title":{"rendered":"115 dogs found in Brooklyn hoarder home on the road to recovery with ‘love and care’ from animal rescuers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neglected and suffering dogs found inside a filthy Brooklyn hoarder home<\/a> \u2013 along with the corpse of their tragic, elderly owner \u2013 were on the road to recovery Saturday, as even more pooches were discovered in the squalid property, animal rescuers told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A total of 115 pooches \u2013 five of them dead, and most terrier mixes \u2013 have been recovered so far from the Mill Basin home, where authorities also found 73-year-old Eileen Horn dead among heaping piles of trash Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been really nervous, but I think they\u2019re so happy to be out of the smell and be shaved \u2013 a lot of them had matted fur, which is really painful because it pulls on the hair of their skin,\u201d said Katy Hansen, the communications director for Animal Care Centers of NYC.<\/p>\n

Hansen said it was likely the dogs were inbreeding with one another. <\/p>\n

Several of the neglected dogs\u2019 fur was badly matted. Karen Lecain \/ CARE Dutchess County<\/p>\n

Animal rescuers cleaned and groomed the pooches on Friday. Karen Lecain \/ CARE Dutchess County<\/p>\n

Neighbors at the 66th Street and National Drive home described it as a house of horrors, where Horn, along with her elderly sister, lived without electricity. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how long the duo lived in the single-family home, which is worth over $1.3 million today, according to real estate estimates.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s sister was reportedly alive and inside the home and treated by medical personnel when authorities arrived around 7 a.m. Neither she nor family could be reached. <\/p>\n

Several pooches had to be put under anesthesia in order to shave them \u201cbecause it was too painful otherwise,\u201d noted Karen Lecain, who works for the Compassionate Animal Rescue Efforts (CARE) of Dutchess County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eileen Horn, 73, was discovered dead among the dogs and clutter inside of the Mill Basin home Friday. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n

A nauseating scent filled the air surrounding the house of horrors at the 66th Street and National Drive home, according to neighbors. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n

Lecain and her fellow CARE rescuers worked until midnight Friday shaving and cleaning up the 40 dogs they received from the Brooklyn home \u2013 one of whom gave birth to a dead puppy in the process, Lecain said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was the stress,\u201d she explained. \u201cSome of them were born in that house and never saw the light of day, so it will take time for them to trust again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jennifer Brooks, the president of NYC Second Chance Rescue, has six of the pooches at the rescue\u2019s Long Island City shelter \u2013 where she had to \u201cgive them three or four shampoos until the water wasn\u2019t yellow anymore,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be able to come around with some love, care and TLC,\u201d Jennifer Brooks, the president of NYC Second Chance Rescue, said about the rescued dogs. \u00a0 James Messerschmidt for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThe smell is really bad \u2013 rancid \u2013 and they\u2019re covered in debris and filth and poop\u2026Mercedes had poop stuck all over her \u2013 it took me 45 minutes to cut it all out of her fur,\u201d said Brooks, explaining that Mercedes is the name she\u2019s given a 5-year-old, 13-pound female terrier mix.<\/p>\n

A 4-year-old, 15-pound Shih Tzu-Japanese Chin mix named Barbie has gone from yellow to \u201cbasically cream\u201d in color in the last 24 hours, said Brooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barbie\u2019s \u201coutgoing and super sweet\u201d behavior, as well as that of the other dogs, is surprising, Brooks explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matted fur \u201cis really painful because it pulls on the hair of their skin,\u201d said Katy Hansen, the communications director for Animal Care Centers of NYC.\u00a0 Karen Lecain \/ CARE Dutchess County<\/p>\n

Several dogs underwent anesthesia in order to shave their matted fur. Karen Lecain \/ CARE Dutchess County<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though some of them are very scared, none of them have been aggressive with me at all \u2013 they\u2019ve been very cooperative, which is unusual because you would think they would be scared to the point of maybe snapping, but they haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be able to come around with some love, care and TLC,\u201d Brooks said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People interested in fostering dogs can fill out an application at nycscr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cause of Horn\u2019s death has not been determined.\u00a0Police have not arrested anyone in connection to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neglected and suffering dogs found inside a filthy Brooklyn hoarder home \u2013 along with the corpse of their…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,18163,21202,3425,1121,4654,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-23369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animal-rescue","10":"tag-animal-shelters","11":"tag-animals","12":"tag-brooklyn","13":"tag-dogs","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764285354151030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}