Judy Bogart, who founded a nonprofit adoption agency called Carolina Castaways will have ill treatment to animals charge dropped as long as she seeks counseling and keeps no animals for year.
Bogart was arrested in November when York County sheriff's deputies found 82 dogs and 129 cats in her home at 321 Boxwood Court in York. A tip came from Bogart's fellow volunteers to the conditions existing in her home.
The floors of her home were covered in animal waste adn the odor was unbearable. Cats had made holes in the walls to hide from the dogs, 32 cats ere found in the box springs of a mattress.
In the agreement to drop the ill treatment to animals charge, Bogart will have to undergo court-ordered counseling and cannot keep any animals for a year. Bogart's counselor will determine when and if she is able to be involved in animal rescue again.
Bogart could have been fined $425 for the misdemeanor charge.
Volunteers said Bogart was keeping the aniamls at her home because she did not want them to be destroyed.
Unfortuantely, more than 200 of the animals found in her home had to be euthanized because of illness or injury.
Chairman of the York County Humane Society said, "We never wanted to prosecute Judy int he first place. Her heart was in the right place3, but she just stepped over the bounds."
Bogart is paying costs for 5 dogs and 2 cats that were spared to be kept at a private kennel.
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