Orange County Animal Control employees seized at least 120 cats from in and around a home in Fullerton on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several Fullerton Police Department\u00a0 officers joined county animal control officers around noon Wednesday at a residence in\u00a0 the 2600 block of Balfour Avenue, near Chapman Avenue and west of the 57 Freeway, where they found the cats, according to The Orange County Register.<\/p>\n
Orange County Animal Control spokesperson Jackie Pratt said a member of the public had called the agency and reported seeing \u201ca large number of cats at the residence and were concerned about their welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n
The total amount of cats seized has not been determined, as they were still being processed for intake at the agency’s headquarters in Tustin, The Register reported. The cats were of various breeds and ages.<\/p>\n
Pratt said a lot of the cats suffered from some form of contagious illness and would receive proper treatment and care with the agency. She added that it didn’t appear that the cats were mistreated, there were just unfortunately too many.<\/p>\n
Pratt said the case is being investigated as a criminal matter and if charges were filed, it would likely be for a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge, citing a failure to properly care for the animals. The animals will eventually be available for adoption after they receive medical treatment and the investigation is complete, Pratt said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have tons of cats at the shelter, so if they want to foster or adopt any of our current residents, it’ll help us make room for these rescues,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
No arrests were made. Residents living inside the home where the animals were seized declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Animal Control employees seized at least 120 cats from in and around a home in Fullerton…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[14430,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-35532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-animals-and-wildlife","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114789824880536548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532","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=35532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}