GUNTERSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -
At least two Guntersville
women are banned from having a dog or cat inside city limits.
That came after the pair
was convicted of leaving several dogs in a home with no food or water. The dogs
eventually tried to eat their way out of the home.
Pictures of the animals are disturbing and
animal control officials said the dogs may have turned on one of their own just
to survive.
Kristen Warden, 37, and Lana
Kelly, 33, were cited for animal cruelty and unsanitary conditions after three
dogs were rescued from a home on Obrig Avenue in Guntersville last Friday.
The two women pleaded
guilty in court on Wednesday.
The three dogs are currently
housed at a shelter and are safe.
Animal control officers
said they found the dogs in deplorable conditions inside the home without food
or water. The floors, officers said, were covered in feces.
"We did find a skull where
evidence these dogs probably ate this other dog [were at], and we also found
holes in the wall of this house where these dogs had been trying to eat their
way out of this house through the holes," said Mike Henderson, an officer with
Guntersville Animal Control.
Officials believe the home
was the dogs' prison and also found remains of what they believe to be a fourth
dog.
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