Nearly 80 frozen carcasses of pets have been discovered in a house in Belgium

The bodies of 75 cats and 3 dogs were found in a house in the south of the country inhabited by Muhamasheen. Also, 25 cats, alive but in poor health, were captured by the SPA.

On Thursday, a local branch of the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) said that it had found seventy-five dead cats and three dogs in refrigerators in a house in the Mons region (southern Belgium).

The intervention of the animal welfare services of the Wallonia region also made it possible to confiscate 25 cats alive but in poor health, the same source said, confirming the information received from the RTBF channel.

“A tribute to the director of an (animal) shelter that we’ve never seen before,” said our colleagues AFP Gaëtan Sgualdino, director of the SPA in La Louvière, near Mons.

He added, “I never imagined that one day I would have to put such a number of dead bodies on the ground to be examined.”

Discover the “untold”

It was probably on a “denunciation” from a neighbor that the Walloon Animal Welfare Unit intervened on Wednesday in this unsanitary home, Gaëtan Sgualdino explained, with police reinforcement.

No details were provided about the identity of the residents, who were described as Muhamasheen, nor about the area. According to the RTBF, the police were to interrogate “witnesses” to the facts, an initial step to questioning potential animal abuse suspects.

Missing eyes on some corpses, corpses already frozen in a state of decomposition: the head of the SPA spoke of an “indescribable” discovery.

According to Gaëtan Sgualdino, the high number of carcasses can be explained by “uncontrolled breeding” in cats.

“We often talk about the duty to sterilize, but in my opinion there was negligence, such a lack of care, that sometimes animals died quickly” after they were born, he told RTBF.

Possible prison sentences for offenders

“We found carcasses (of ancient animals) that were a few days old, sometimes a few hours old.”

According to the Walloon Animal Welfare Act, serious cases of abuse can merit a prison sentence for the owner, provided that prosecution is initiated by the prosecution. Heavy administrative fines can also be imposed.

The 25 cats found alive at three shelters were welcomed to be treated there, particularly for skin conditions linked to the fact that they live in their litter.