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Police raid rescues menagerie 20 sick cats taken to SPCA. Neighbours fear their missing felines were ending up in fetid duplex
MAX HARROLD, The Gazette
Published: 4 hours ago
Residents watched in disgust yesterday as nearly 30 sick cats and pigeons and several dead cats, pigeons and a squirrel were removed from the smelly, cluttered, second-floor unit of a duplex in Notre Dame de Grâce.
A man in his 40s who lives in the 51/2-room flat on Melrose Ave. near Sherbrooke St. was taken away by ambulance for a medical evaluation, Montreal police said.
"We could hardly move inside there," said Daniel Davenport, an inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The scene in the dwelling was one of the "top 10" worst cases he has seen in his 30-year career as an animal cruelty inspector, he added.
There was a very, very strong odour," said Davenport, 49.
The flat was crammed with furniture, he said, and the floors and walls were spattered with feces.
"It's unimaginable how anyone could live there."
The 20 living cats found roaming the flat and nine living pigeons in cages were taken to the SPCA's Montreal branch on Jean Talon St. W. for treatment, Davenport said.
"In the (dwelling's) fridge freezer, we found six or seven cat carcasses, three or four pigeon carcasses and one dead squirrel," he said.
A second, larger freezer in the basement contained about 30 more carcasses, including cats, Davenport said. "They were frozen in a block. It was hard to count them."
There are a lot of missing cat posters in the area, and at least one resident worried that local household felines that have gone missing might have ended up at the cramped dwelling.
"That's very disturbing," said Chris Bridgeman, 22, recalling that his cat went missing from his family's home on Madison Ave., eight blocks from the scene, two years ago.
Davan Roberge, 43, who lives in the unit beneath the flat, noticed strong smells and leaking water smelling of urine and cat litter shortly after he moved in last February.
"There were also an awful lot of flies" coming down from upstairs and through the floors, he said. "Flies in March - that must have come from larvae in (rotting) meat."
The last few days have been especially tense, Roberge said, as notices informing his neighbour that a city health inspector would be coming have been delivered to the man.
"It's been a living hell for us," said Roberge, whose two adult daughters often stay with him but have refused to do so lately because of the noises and smells.
"He's been banging in the middle of the night, making (bird) cages," Roberge said. "It's scary to know this was going on right above us."
Montreal police arrived at 10 a.m. yesterday to talk to the resident, but he had barricaded the front door with another, unhinged door. A locksmith was called in so police could enter, and the SPCA was called in about noon.
Montreal police Constable Yannick Ouimet would not say what type of medical exam the man was to undergo.
The building's owner, who spoke on condition that her name not be used, said she tried for months to have the resident evicted, but provincial and city red tape prevented her.
The resident, a doctoral student at Concordia University who moved into the flat in July 2006, has been paying his monthly rent with cheques in the mail, she said.
20 sick cats taken to SPCA. Neighbours fear their missing felines were ending up in fetid duplex
Police raid rescues menagerie 20 sick cats taken to SPCA. Neighbours fear their missing felines were ending up in fetid duplex
MAX HARROLD, The Gazette
Published: 4 hours ago
Residents watched in disgust yesterday as nearly 30 sick cats and pigeons and several dead cats, pigeons and a squirrel were removed from the smelly, cluttered, second-floor unit of a duplex in Notre Dame de Grâce.
A man in his 40s who lives in the 51/2-room flat on Melrose Ave. near Sherbrooke St. was taken away by ambulance for a medical evaluation, Montreal police said.
"We could hardly move inside there," said Daniel Davenport, an inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The scene in the dwelling was one of the "top 10" worst cases he has seen in his 30-year career as an animal cruelty inspector, he added.
There was a very, very strong odour," said Davenport, 49.
The flat was crammed with furniture, he said, and the floors and walls were spattered with feces.
"It's unimaginable how anyone could live there."
The 20 living cats found roaming the flat and nine living pigeons in cages were taken to the SPCA's Montreal branch on Jean Talon St. W. for treatment, Davenport said.
"In the (dwelling's) fridge freezer, we found six or seven cat carcasses, three or four pigeon carcasses and one dead squirrel," he said.
A second, larger freezer in the basement contained about 30 more carcasses, including cats, Davenport said. "They were frozen in a block. It was hard to count them."
There are a lot of missing cat posters in the area, and at least one resident worried that local household felines that have gone missing might have ended up at the cramped dwelling.
"That's very disturbing," said Chris Bridgeman, 22, recalling that his cat went missing from his family's home on Madison Ave., eight blocks from the scene, two years ago.
Davan Roberge, 43, who lives in the unit beneath the flat, noticed strong smells and leaking water smelling of urine and cat litter shortly after he moved in last February.
"There were also an awful lot of flies" coming down from upstairs and through the floors, he said. "Flies in March - that must have come from larvae in (rotting) meat."
The last few days have been especially tense, Roberge said, as notices informing his neighbour that a city health inspector would be coming have been delivered to the man.
"It's been a living hell for us," said Roberge, whose two adult daughters often stay with him but have refused to do so lately because of the noises and smells.
"He's been banging in the middle of the night, making (bird) cages," Roberge said. "It's scary to know this was going on right above us."
Montreal police arrived at 10 a.m. yesterday to talk to the resident, but he had barricaded the front door with another, unhinged door. A locksmith was called in so police could enter, and the SPCA was called in about noon.
Montreal police Constable Yannick Ouimet would not say what type of medical exam the man was to undergo.
The building's owner, who spoke on condition that her name not be used, said she tried for months to have the resident evicted, but provincial and city red tape prevented her.
The resident, a doctoral student at Concordia University who moved into the flat in July 2006, has been paying his monthly rent with cheques in the mail, she said.
20 sick cats taken to SPCA. Neighbours fear their missing felines were ending up in fetid duplex
