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German woman living with 152 animals
Berlin, Oct 11: A German woman has been found living with 152 sickly animals, including 51 rabbits and 45 cats in a small high-rise apartment block, authorities say.
Berlin, Oct 11: A German woman has been found living with 152 sickly animals, including 51 rabbits and 45 cats in a small high-rise apartment block, authorities say.
"It stank like the plague," said Wolfgang Poggendorf of the Hamburg Animal Protection home. Poggendorf said the woman saw herself as a kind of modern Dr. Dolittle, hero of Hugh Lofting's popular children's books about an animal-loving country doctor.
Animal activists also found caged birds including parrots, pigeons and crows in the 65 square metre (700 sq ft) apartment as well as a sewer rat, a hedgehog and piles of food and animal faeces.
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"It stank like the plague," said Wolfgang Poggendorf of the Hamburg Animal Protection home. Poggendorf said the woman saw herself as a kind of modern Dr. Dolittle, hero of Hugh Lofting's popular children's books about an animal-loving country doctor.
Animal activists also found caged birds including parrots, pigeons and crows in the 65 square metre (700 sq ft) apartment as well as a sewer rat, a hedgehog and piles of food and animal faeces.
Bureau Report