The owner of an Alaska cat-rescue nonprofit has been charged with 33 counts of animal cruelty after Anchorage police say they found dozens of cats, dogs and birds sick and wallowing in their own waste at her home and shelter.
Police say Deborah Ann Allen, 54, has for years hoarded cats and dogs, turtles, birds, lizards and a rabbit, cramming the critters in her cluttered Sand Lake home that reeked of feces and urine and had swarms of flies inside.
When police searched her home at 7101 Kitlisa Drive last Tuesday, they found 23 cats, eight dogs and one bird, many of them malnourished, dirty and with untreated injuries, according to an affidavit filed in court by Detective Jackie Conn. At the Chateau Pampered Purr shelter in Midtown, a nonprofit run by Allen, authorities found 50 or more cats in similar straits.
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