Posted on 06/30/2009 5:28:23 PM PDT by Chet 99
VALRICO — It took 15 minutes to get through the front door of a $300,000 house.
Investigators used broomsticks and mop handles to push away debris. From inside a gated Valrico community, they removed a frail older woman and some of her cats — eight dead and 15 alive.
Hillsborough County Animal Services said both the woman and the cats appeared neglected. The Department of Children and Families was summoned, to see whether 74-year-old Alice Santy, a woman who showed signs of hoarding, needed help.
Now, the Sheriff's Office is investigating to see how Mrs. Santy, who is married, came to be left alone with the cats and shoulder-high clutter in her house on Crowned Eagle Court.
Sheriff's Office spokesman J.D. Callaway said the county has an "active case open." He wouldn't elaborate.
"We're not speculating on what might be, what could be," he said. "We're looking for the facts right now."
Mrs. Santy was taken from her home Wednesday. She initially was put in the care of Baylife Crisis Center because she appeared to be in poor mental and physical health and was emaciated, said Hillsborough County Animal Services investigator Ken Vetzel.
Her husband, James Santy, was not at the house when authorities seized the cats and sent his wife to the crisis center.
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Looks like my house after the renters moved out.
Out Standing!!!!...because there ain’t no other place...
Try having to clean up after putrid people like that. I had these good ole rednecks help me, great people and didn’t puke once. Took 4 pickup loads, a straight truck, and a long trailer full of garbage out AFTER the pukes broke their lease.
You must hate cats or cat people, cause you’ve posted a bunch of stories on the same subject.
Bush’s fault. Mrs. Santy inherited that mess.
My eyes see this trash but my nostrils are reacting!
Must have been quite a stank!
What happened Chet? You couldn’t find a pit bull story? Is it going to be all about cats from now on?
Hey! at least there is enough room on the counter top to make a sammich!
Now where did I put that bologna and mustard?...
My brother had a renter who called and said the heat was out.
He said “I’ll be right over”(10 min)
When he got there the guy had a fire going in the middle of the living room.
Some other used the fiberglass bathtub to BBQ a pig in and burned the place down. They thought they had done good cuz they opened the window over the tub before the started the fire.
Hate cats too, do ya?
Sheesh
Alright. I have to ask. Did you join FR just to keep people from discussing politics?
No, if I wanted to disrupt political discussions, I’d post 500 Michael Jackson threads in the news section of the forum. Instead, I post this stuff in “Chat”.
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