Kurt Brandli, of Paisley, was arrested and charged with 28 counts of cruelty to animals. Thirty cats and a turtle were found living in a 5-room trailer on Brandli's property. (LAKE COUNTY JAIL / March 7, 2008)
TAVARES - Lake County Animal Services seized 30 cats and a turtle from a Paisley home Thursday after investigators said they found the cats living in the most squalid conditions they had ever encountered.
Kurt Brandli, of Paisley, was arrested and charged with 28 counts of cruelty to animals. He was released from Lake County Jail Thursday night after posting $56,600 bail.
When deputies and Animal Services responded to Brandli's property on Pine Valley Drive, they found 30 cats living in a five-room trailer. The floors were caked with a foot of solidified feces, urine, and cat litter, and the trailer was overrun with roaches and rodents, said Marjorie Boyd, Director of Lake County Animal Services
"It was the worst scene I'd ever seen," said Rene Segraves, Assistant Animal Services Director for Lake County Animal Services, who was part of the team that seized the cats.
Segraves said that she and other animal services employees had to don protective suits to shield their skin and eyes from cat-urine fumes, and that at least one investigator vomited while working in the trailer.
Boyd said that Brandli lived in a second trailer on the property, but investigators found a pallet in the cats' trailer where they believe Brandli sometimes slept.
The seized cats are currently at Lake County Animal services. Boyd said that some of the cats appear to be suffering from skin and eye ailments, but that they won't know details about their condition until a vet examines them on Tuesday.
Boyd said that the cats are feral, and that they will have to be euthanized because Animal Services does not consider them adoptable.
"They're very wild cats - they're not friendly, loveable cats," Boyd said. "Of course, I'd be wild too if I had to live like that."
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