Columbia cat hoarder appeals conviction

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The head of Howard Animal Control described the scene as “ horrendous” and “heartbreaking” in one of the county’s most notable animal cruelty cases involving more than 75 dead and sickly cats hoarded inside a townhouse.

Cardboard boxes full of cat carcasses, sickly kittens nursing inside of kitchen cabinets and urine soaked floors coated in mounds of feces were among the sights that Animal Control Administrator Deborah Baracco recounted to a Howard jury Tuesday.

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