Dozens die in a volunteer-managed house that keeps dogs and cats Kyoto Yawata June 5, 16:37
We found dozens of dogs and cats dead in a house in Kyoto Prefecture managed by a volunteer woman who takes care of dogs and cats. Police searched the house on the 5th to find out if it was forcibly reared.
The house that was searched was a house managed by a woman in her 50s in Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture.
According to the police, a report from a member of an animal protection group that visited this house on the 3rd, and a search on the 5th, resulted in scattering of dust and dirt inside the room, and dogs, cats, and dozens of animals. Is confirmed to be dead.
The woman who manages the house has been doing volunteer work to keep stray dogs and abandoned cats for many years, but according to the public health center, complaints such as barking and stinking of dogs and cats for about two years have been reported in the neighborhood. It is said that a number of residents sent us and the staff visited them several times to give guidance.
"I heard that the dogs continued to bark and had a bad odor," said a local man living in the neighborhood, who may have been in a state of being unable to raise enough to accept a large number of breedings. I was talking.
The police are investigating whether or not they have been forced to raise animals such as by not giving enough food to the dogs and cats they have kept, as they have heard the situation from women on suspicion of violating the Animal Welfare Law.