“Is there an unwritten rule that every third MHCommunity has someone who hoards and/or has a bunch of cats?” quipped manufactured home industry consultant and publisher, L. A. “Tony” Kovach. The comment flowed from the discovery of dozens of cats seized from the Niagara Mobile Home Park in Newfane, NY.

“The stench coming from a mobile home at the Niagara Mobile Home Park in Newfane was so powerful that a neighbor called the SPCA of Niagara for help,” BuffaloTWCNews  told MHProNews. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was called by a neighbor. After contacting the owner, SPCA’s Amy Lewis said the owner moved some cats to a different home and then dumped others in a nearby field. Misdemeanor charges could be filed, but the home owner is allegedly being treated for mental illness.  The home was reportedly filled with piles of hoarded items too.

Community resident Jennifer Farmer lived next door for two years. “We’ve always noticed the trash in the yard and things of that nature, but we didn’t know how bad it really was,” Farmer stated, adding that the smell was unbearable on some days.

MySanAntonio  asserts that animal neglect or cruetly occurs every ten seconds in the U.S., which equals some 3,153,600 cases a year…the vast majority of which would take place outside of manufactured homes and communities. ##

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