Pa. Officials Seek Order on 'Rat House'
Posted on: Saturday, 10 June 2006, 18:00 CDT
PORTAGE, Pa. - Township officials are seeking a court order to clean up - and possibly tear down - a rat-infested house where they say animal waste is piled a foot high and trash is stacked to the ceiling.
Animal control officers removed 47 dogs from the Portage Township house last month. Officials said the three occupants, who were all charged with cruelty to animals because of the squalid conditions, no longer live there.
State police and animal control officials said some dogs were kept on chains in the house that were so short that the animals could not move away from their own waste.
Township solicitor C.J. Webb wants a Cambria County judge to issue an order allowing officials to clean up the mess and to tear down the house if it cannot be salvaged otherwise.
"It's fairly obvious the condition of the house is not good, and a court order for cleanup may not be physically possible," Webb said.
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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