Animal rescue owners feel catfished, devastated after large neglect investigation in NorCal

yeah I mean it's truly heartbreaking to see what these animals had to go through um it's not something you ever want to find police are providing an update on what they're calling the largest animal neglect case within the City of Hollister now with a revised count police say 13 dogs 65 live cats and 31 deceased cats were recovered from inside this home this strong odor emanating throughout the house that just is not safe for us to be breathing in as well as for the animals too it's not safe to

be ingesting that as if conditions weren't disturbing enough police say the two suspects arrested are founders of their own animal rescue organization they ran SBC pedoa rescue Inc and police say they were well known in the rescue Community Gilroy resident Liz Garcia said her family adopted kylo in 2022 from the organization months later kylo needed extensive surgery to repair a broken pelvis that healed incorrectly starting to come together as to maybe why this had happened to him and and it wa

s just devastating to to even think of what all these other poor animals had gone through and what they had experienced Julie NN also adopted her dog Kubo from pedoa in 2022 she says she was reassured Kubo was great with other dogs NN quickly found out he wasn't I don't know I feel almost catfish from her after nearly a year of training and trying to get Kubo out of his shell noan surrendered Kubo back to pedoa two weeks ago thinking he would be better there when I found out I felt so guilty pol

ice said shelters and rescue groups from Monteray to Walnut Creek have taken in the animals no one hopes someone will see the story and let her know how seven-year-old German Shepherd Kubo is doing I just want to know he's okay and what we can do to help he's a loving boy but he's afraid of the world and now I know why in the South Bay Lauren Martinez ABC7 News