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More than 150 dogs were found crammed into an elderly hoarder’s tiny, trashed house in Utah last month, horrific newly released police bodycam footage reveals.
Homeowner Miguel Salgado-Vargas, 73, wasn’t there during the sweep last month, but Ogden Police bodycam footage obtained by KUTV shows packs of pooches — plus a few cats — swarming every inch of the disgusting abode.
Officers were met with a cacophony of barks and howls before they even opened the door.
Inside, they found a house of horrors: Dozens of terrified small dogs in cardboard boxes, teeming like rats among piles of trash and hopping on and off rotting mattresses.
The dust and stench burned officers’ noses and eyes, and at one point, they donned gas masks before venturing further into the labyrinth of filth.
The Ogden Police Department removed 156 animals from the furry flophouse and took them to a local animal shelter.
Salgado-Vargas faces 637 misdemeanor charges, including animal cruelty, unlicensed animals and kennel violations, KUTV reported.
Most of the animals have been adopted, and Weber County Animal Shelter has received an outpouring of donations from the community, the outlet added.
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