17 dogs were rescued from a home in Keyport on Saturday night.
KEYPORT -- Seventeen dogs were rescued this weekend from a borough home that was in worse shape than the one in Howell where nearly 300 dogs were living, officials said.
Nicole Fedderson, a doctor with the Monmouth County SPCA, told News 12 that officials found 11 puppies and six adult dogs that were around 3 or 4 years old. The animals were found Saturday night.
"The conditions of the home were deplorable, actually even worse from the case in Howell," Fedderson told the news station in an interview at the Monmouth County SPCA's headquarters in Eatontown.
In what officials called the worst hoarding case in Monmouth County, 276 dogs were rescued from a Bennett Road home in Howell. The SPCA is housing approximately 100 of those dogs, which are slowly becoming available for adoption.
A spokesman for the New Jersey SPCA, Matt Stanton, said the agency sees a spike in reports of hoarding incidents around this time of year because people can smell the urine and the feces due to the heat.
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