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More than two dozen neglected pups were rescued from a repulsive Long Island hoarder’s house — the second time in eight years the sickening eyesore has been raided, officials said Thursday.
Suffolk County animal rescue officials said the stomach-turning Bayshore home was so toxic that SPCA workers had to don hazmat suits while executing warrants at the property on Wednesday afternoon — following years of gripes from fed-up neighbors.
“The conditions inside were heavily hoarded — ammonia, feces, flies present, deceased rodents,” said Suffolk SPCA Detective Sgt. Joseph Galante. “Pretty much all of the things you might imagine in an extreme hoarded and overcrowded residence.
“Uninhabitable for human occupancy and, by the same convention, animal occupancy,” he said.
SPCA Chief Roy Gross said there were so many dogs pulled from the property that the local shelter couldn’t take them all in — with the pups treated and vaccinated against rabies in a mobile hospital.
Homeowner Robin Mills, 66, refused to comment to The Post at the house on Thursday.
Mills was hit with 22 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty in 2017, when authorities rescued 21 dogs and an exotic birds following an earlier batch of complaints.
“I was at this location in 2017,” Gross said. “That smell stays with you for a long time. To walk into a house like that, where, again, I remember there was like a pass you had to squeeze your way through.
“The smell is so overwhelming you start gagging and choking and running outside for fresh air,” the chief said. “Why someone does something like this? I’m not a psychiatrist. I can’t answer that.”
He said Mills claimed she wasn’t living inside the house — but in the backyard.
On Wednesday, the SPCA and cops were back at the house of horrors, this time finding 25 dogs, most of them terrier Pomeranian mixed pups around one year old, officials said.
Neighbors said they have long complained about Mills over non-stop barking coming from her home, rodents and roaches invading nearby houses, and a stench they said is hard to forget.
“She lives like a rat,” Martin Forero, who lives across the street, told The Post. “Hopefully they’ll do something now. I mean, eight years ago they just let her go, but this time it was worse.
“She is horrible,” said Forero, 58. “She won’t stop. The guy that lives behind her has been dealing with her for 42 years. Now he’s got rats and cockroaches and stuff coming over into his house from her yard. It just doesn’t make sense.”
Another neighbor who asked not to be identified said the situation “is like hell.
“She is dangerous,” the neighbor said. “She just does not stop. She does not listen. She’s driving around in a car full of garbage up to the roof. She can’t see out of any of the windows.”
The SPCA said the case will be referred to the district attorney’s office for possible charges.
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