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Police: Two People Charged With Animal Cruelty After 30 Cats Found In Flea-Infested House

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - Two people in Cambria County are charged with animal cruelty after police say they found 30 cats in a house filled with urine, feces and fleas.

State Police say they charged two people from Portage with 30 counts of animal cruelty each, for a total of 60 counts.

They say that all 30 cats in the urine and feces-filled residence were suffering from fleas.

One cat was taken to the Ebensburg Animal Hospital, where police report it died because it was covered in so many fleas.

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