“There were about 100 cats on the property, and we needed the varied expertise to safely remove and begin rehabilitating the cats that survived,” Keiley added, noting that a couple dozen cats on the property had already died. Keiley said the MSPCA brought shelter staff and members of its law enforcement team. “Berkeley has grown and evolved so much since we started working together, but they still don’t have the staffing or experience that we do when it comes to handling hoarding situations, so jumping in to help with this was a natural extension of our already existing mentorship,” said Keiley. The cats arrived in Salem the evening of Friday, February 10, after staffers drove for more than 12 hours to get them to Massachusetts. The MSPCA-Angell and Northeast Animal Shelter (NEAS) are working to help and heal more than a dozen cats rescued from a hoarding situation in South Carolina. More recently, the MSPCA and NEAS were alerted to the South Carolina situation by the Berkeley Animal Center, a shelter the two organizations have been mentoring since last year. In December, dozens of cats and dogs were brought to Massachusetts from overcrowded animal shelters in Tennessee, Texas, and Kentucky, MSPCA officials said. “They were rescued from a dire situation and are lucky help arrived when it did.”įriday’s rescue follows previous action by the Massachusetts shelters to rescue animals in need from out-of-state areas. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We needed to move quickly as the cats are in pretty rough shape,” said Mike Keiley, MSPCA-Angell director of adoption centers and programs and executive director of the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem. The cats arrived in Salem on Friday night, after staffers from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell Animal Medical Center drove for more than 12 hours to get them to the Bay State, shelter officials said. More than a dozen cats rescued from a hoarding situation in South Carolina are now calling Massachusetts home.
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