From the A/P:

Minnesota woman with 64 dead cats, 43 live cats sentenced

FARMINGTON, Minn. — A Minnesota woman who was found to have 64 dead cats, 43 live cats, a 400-pound pig and other animals on her property has been sentenced.

Twenty-five-year-old Caycee Bregel, who ran an animal rescue nonprofit out of home south of the Twin Cities, pleaded guilty Friday to 13 counts of animal cruelty.

Bregel was ordered to serve 200 hours of community service, two years of probation and 90 days of electronic home monitoring. She must also receive a psychological examination.

Court documents say complaints about the pig running loose led investigators to the house. They found numerous cats and dogs in poor health and said they emitted an "overpowering smell of urine and feces." Dead cats were found in shallow graves across the backyard, in freezers and refrigerators, and in the garage.

I'm with LTD on that one.

If it was near me, I'd steal - I mean buy it.

Hauntings? LOL- NO worries.

Smells like money to me, somd other rescue hero will get the live ones and make tv for a few weeks then in 2 months will be pleading for vet money and food rather than let Darwin set the course.

I cringe every time I hear of all the so-called animal rescues that people are running out of their houses or little farms. It is a scam. Craigslist is full of these in my area. No animals are for sale, but they all have hefty "rehoming" fees.

After our last dog died, we went to the local humane society to see about adopting a dog. We needed a dog that was raised around goats and chickens, as we have those on our hobby farm. The workers at the Humane Society had no idea about the history of the dogs available for adoption. They said their dogs were shipped in from Southern California to Spokane, WA. The "adoption fees" for puppies were $300-400 dollars.

I bought one of those once. SPCA took 50 some cats out after it was foreclosed. There was cat littler 3 feet deep dumped on the floor in the utility room, all the furniture was still there but covered with half an inch of cat hair and other grossness. Two clean-out crews quit on me before we finally got it cleaned out. We still refer to it as the cat house.