The Louisiana Cat Cruelty Case : The Red Flags Every Animal Lover Should Know

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Welcome back to Animal Posse.

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Today, we are gonna be discussing

a heartbreaking story out of

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Walker, Louisiana, where a local

rescue became the site of an

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unimaginable animal cruelty tragedy.

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Authorities recently discovered nearly 40

cats and kittens trapped inside without

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food or water in temperatures here in

Louisiana are soaring near 100 degrees.

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Tragically, many of these cats

lost their lives, but thanks to

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swift intervention, many others

were rescued from severe distress.

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So joining us today is Jonathan from

Rescue Alliance, the organization that

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stepped in on the ground to help rescue

and care for their surviving babies.

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Jonathan, thank you so much

for the critical work you

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do and for joining us today.

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It's not really the conversation that

I wanna have, but it's a very important

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conversation so that everybody's aware

of, first off, what rescues do, and

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then also to look for, red flags.

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There was a very heartbreaking story

the other day, and you were involved in

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this, and it was an animal cruelty case.

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I don't even know if you

would call it a hoarding case.

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It was out of Livingston Parish, and

you were one of the rescuers there to

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help out and take some of the kittens.

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Can you walk us through that, like how

you became involved with it and what

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it looked like when you got there?

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Jonathan: We got contacted by the Humane

Society of Louisiana becau- to go out and

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coordinate with the actual animal cruelty

investigator for Livingston Parish.

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When we arrived on the scene at the

person's house we were escorted into

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the garage whereas the garage was

closed, had no air conditioning.

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It had one box fan with a water heater.

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There was one adult cat and 11 kittens

all in a garage that had no airflow

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Dixie: that's insane.

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And the weather that we have here,

it's, we're close to 100 degrees,

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so I can't even imagine how hot

it would've been in that garage.

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Jonathan: At the time when w- when I was

there, it was: 11:40

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The actual outside field temperature

with the heat index was 103.

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So on average, when, with a 103

temperature inside of a garage, you're

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looking at about 125 to 130 degrees

inside the garage, which I was in there

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for 20 minutes, and in 20 minutes I

basically, I was, I'd almost sweated all,

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all the little fluids that I had out.

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So you can only imagine that by having

this ca- these cats in the garage with

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no proper airflow, they can't regulate

their temperature the way we can.

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And that's the reason why, even one

of the 12 that we pulled, we ended up

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losing because by the time, within two

hours, its body started shutting down.

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That's so- So we ended up having-

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Dixie: That's so sad.

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Jonathan: Yeah.

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We ended up having to humanely

euthanize, which to tell you about,

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we don't euthanize talk about since

: 2019

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second cat to be euthanized since 2019.

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Dixie: It's something that

you don't- consider lightly.

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You only do it when it's

absolutely necessary.

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That's horrible.

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Jonathan: When we took, when

by the time we got the kitten

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to the vet, his diagnosis with

the baby was already comatose.

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Dixie: Oh my God.

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Jonathan: It faded from, it was alive

and alert when we picked up the cat,

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but its organs were already failing.

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But, s- 'cause we were literally,

we picked up the cats at

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11:40 and by 1:30 it was gone.

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Dixie: That's terrible.

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And how old were the kittens?

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Jonathan: This kitten that

ended up passing away was

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probably about six weeks old.

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The average we had, the one adult

was probably about two years old.

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The majority of the rest of the

cats and kittens was about f-

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between six weeks and four months

that was actually in her garage.

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And, as anybody who knows anything

about cats do not regulate their,

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or especially kittens, they don't

regulate their temperature properly.

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They don't regulate their temperature,

therefore that's why when you've

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got kittens without a mom, we

have to put 'em on heating pads

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So the fact that they were in a garage

without air, it, they were dehydrated.

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The majority of them had ringworm

upper respiratory infections.

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It's just intense.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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I can't even imagine that.

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And were they all in

one cage or were they in

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Jonathan: separate ones?

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They were free-roaming inside the

garage, so that's one thing that we can

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say is yes, they were not in the cages.

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But at the same time, a garage is

not a place for any animal to be kept

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because it doesn't have proper airflow

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Dixie: Wow.

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It's unimaginable.

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I just can't even understand that.

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Like I know for me personally, I

worry always about hurricanes or

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power outages I don't worry about

myself, I'm worried about the cats.

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Which is why we have a,

whole house generator.

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I got that to make sure if we ever

did lose power and we had to stay

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for a storm or something like that,

that the cats wouldn't have to be

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hot because I can go move somewhere

and not be hot, but the cats can't.

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Jonathan: Yeah.

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And the b- the biggest key to

even with the hurricane situation,

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if you lose power, you open

windows, you let air flow through.

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Whereas they were in a garage,

the garage door was closed.

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There's a gas water heater in there,

which is also producing heat, and the

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field temperature outside was 103 degrees.

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So it was all things that, are

dangerous when it comes to cats.

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Whenever you have an animal rescue,

especially a cat rescue, y- you have

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to take into account all the details.

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You ha- you need to educate

before you go and start a rescue.

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Find out what's your pro- what's

the proper protocols, safety

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measures that you can put in place.

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It's all the things that, we

always recommend if you're gonna

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consider even opening a rescue,

go volunteer at a shelter.

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See what their protocols are,

what their, what they do, how

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they handle the s- the situation.

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And the other thing is, if you do

have an animal rescue, you have to

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know what your boundaries and what

your limits are, because overwhelming

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yourself at the same time is just as

bad Because you can't properly care

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for the ones that are in your custody.

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And as an animal rescue, we take

the responsibility of all the

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cats and kittens in our care.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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Jonathan: Ab- absolutely.

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When rescues have to actually take

dogs you're responsible for those dogs.

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That is a life that is dependent upon

you, because cats dying in your care is

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not something that should be happening.

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It happens on certain, on rare situations.

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But when you're locking, 40 cats in one

building and 17 of them are deceased, and

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then they go into the person's house and

there's 12 cats and kittens in the garage,

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in both places it was over a hun- it was

triple-digit weather inside the buildings.

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We have to, we have to hold to the

standards that is healthy for them.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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And I think that's something,, that the

public doesn't realize, too, when they're

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approaching a rescue to ask for help.

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They think that a rescue can just take in

whatever they have, and it's not the case.

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'Cause like you said, you get to that

point where you know you're, , at

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a limit and you have to say, "Okay,

we cannot take any more in right

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now 'cause we don't have room."

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And it's not that we don't wanna take them

in and don't wanna help them, it's just,

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you have limited resources to work with.

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Jonathan: It's limited resources.

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Per so many cats and kittens, you

have to have one volunteer for each.

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And our ratio with everything that we do

is six cats and kittens per volunteer.

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That's the ratio that we try to

average out because at our rescue

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we believe that it's not just

cleaning, it's not just feeding.

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You have to have time to love on them

and show these cats and kittens love

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because, that's a part of being rescued.

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We're getting them ready to

go to their forever homes.

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So if w- if you're overwhelming

yourself, that's less time that you

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can individually work with the rescue.

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Dixie: You said you got

these cats out of the garage.

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Were there two locations

that these cats were kept?

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Jonathan: Yes.

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She actually had a storefront

location which is where the 40 was.

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When they made entry into that

storefront location, there was a

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total of 40 cats and kittens there.

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There were 17 dead.

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At that point, they went to her

house, and that's where they

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found the 12 in the garage.

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I

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, Dixie: It's just so hard

to wrap your head around.

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, Not only that you're doing something like

this, but that you have two locations and

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it happened in two separate locations.

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It's just unimaginable.

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I'm at a loss for words.

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It's just horrible.

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Jonathan: It is.

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In, in rescue we have, we do not let

our rescue facility go above 78 degrees.

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And, that's for someone's house, I,

my house stays at about 67 degrees.

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But, as, as far as the rescue, we try

to keep them at a nice comfortable 78

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degrees just because we don't want them

too cold because we have metal cages.

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We have the stainless steel

cages which tend to get colder

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the lower the temperature goes.

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So we regulate everything based

upon temperature, humidity.

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There's a whole lot involved

in doing rescue besides just,

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putting cats up for adoption.

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Since this whole, since we did remove

these cats and kittens, they've

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been having to receive IV fluids.

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They've been, having to get Nutri-Cal,

which is a high-calorie supplement.

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There's a lot that we have to

do just because their bodies

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are battered because of heat

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Dixie: Yeah, that's what I was

gonna actually ask you too.

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How did that work as far as you

taking the ones that you took and

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you have to go get them all to

the vet to basically be triaged?

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Obviously they would need fluids.

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But just the exams in general to see

what was going on with them, to see,

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how long they've been without food,

how long they've been without water.

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So what was that like?

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Jonathan: It was expensive because,

we're, we, when we actually had to

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go and we had to order antibiotics.

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We had to-- They needed intra-fungal

because majority of them have ringworms.

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We had, we've had to bathe them

and just in two days they've had to

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be, they've received multiple baths

because they were soiled in urine.

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And taking them all to the vet,

of course the exam alone, you're

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we're looking at almost $50 per cat.

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But on top of that, you've got the

Lactated Ringers to rehydrate them.

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But, on average, you're looking to spend

anywhere between $400 and $1,000 per cat

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Dixie: Are they still at the vet right

now or are they at your facility?

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Jonathan: No, they're actually

at our rescue center right now.

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We actually, we did have a, we had a

very good crew of volunteers come today.

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They all received IV fluids.

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They all got another bath.

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They're eating like they

haven't eaten in 10 years.

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But they're receiving the best

treatment and care possible

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Dixie: And how is their temperament?

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Jonathan: Oh, they're lovable.

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They want love.

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They're, they're playful.

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They're a lot more playful now

than they were two days ago.

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They're eating more than a normal

cat would, but at the same time, we

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did not know when the last time they

actually had a good quality meal

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even the reports of with the cats

that were picked up from the strip

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mall location, which was the 40,

they had food and water there, but

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the cats did not have access to it.

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So we don't know when their last meal was

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Dixie: That's just so crazy to me.

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Like I said, I just I'm

at a loss for words.

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I really am.

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The fact that they would be there

and there was food and water

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there, but they had no access

to it, and then in that heat.

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Jonathan: And that's what

makes it very dangerous.

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At Rescue Alliance, our cats, their

cages are cleaned every morning.

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They get fresh food and water, and

multiple times throughout the day,

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we go through and we check to make

sure that they didn't eat all their

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food, they didn't drink all their

water, they didn't spill their water.

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This happens between two and five

times a day just to make sure that

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they have all the nutrients they need

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So having an animal rescue for one,

people think that, oh, an animal

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rescuer collecting all this money.

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A true reputable animal rescue does

not really make that much money

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because we're s- we're busy spending

all of it on the cats in our care.

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We buy food, we buy blankets, we

buy snacks we- or treats for them.

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Everything that we do goes towards

bettering them to find their forever home

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So , anybody who wants to start an animal

rescue they, the first thing that they,

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that we want them to know is don't go

into it thinking you're gonna make money.

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Dixie: Yeah, and that's like

something that gets me right there.

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The whole mindset behind how

this happened, was it because

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of like , a money motivation?

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Was there this idea that you could

be making money or was it just it

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started out as good and then they just

didn't know what to do essentially?

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It's just, insane.

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Jonathan: Unfortunately, that's one of

the things that we won't know for now.

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It's still too early on

in the investigation.

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But, for the biggest part I would say

that she probably got overwhelmed.

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Which, which in animal rescue,

becoming overwhelmed and not having

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the proper assistance, it can,

you can get overwhelmed very fast.

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Saying no is one of the hardest things,

but even at Rescue Alliance, like for

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instance, right now we have over 50

animal surrender pending applications.

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But I cannot say, "Oh we'll go ahead

and we'll take them," because then we

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become just as bad as the other person.

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And we want to give the cats in

our care the best care, the best

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attention, the most love possible,

because what we do will determine

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the outcome of their adoption

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Dixie: Yeah and back to what you were

saying too, like when you have to say no.

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This is a very heartbreaking thing

for me because I saw a photo the

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other day of the before of one of

the kittens and then the after.

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And it was a post I

was actually tagged in.

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Somebody was asking me if

I could take the kitten.

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I was not in the position to

take the kitten 'cause I was

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getting ready to go out of town.

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And for that reason, I had to say no.

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And I remember seeing it was a little

five-week-old black and white kitten.

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I'm not 100% sure if it's the

same one, but the person who is

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accused of doing all this is the

one that ended up with the kitten.

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And I believe it is now one of

the kittens that was in one of the

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primary photos that you can see

online on social media right now.

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And it's absolutely heartbreaking.

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It is absolutely heartbreaking to

know that I was tagged in that post

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and I couldn't take that kitten.

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You know-

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Jonathan: It makes us, as far as the

reputable animal rescues, it makes

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us feel bad because some of these

cats came from shelters that reached

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out to us to help them because they

were overcrowded or they needed help.

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And now that this happened, it makes

us feel bad because it's maybe we

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should've just went and take it.

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It starts making us question

why we didn't take them.

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Dixie: Absolutely.

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Jonathan: But at the same time, we don't

wanna take something that we can't handle.

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And our rescue on average h- houses

between 60 and 100 cats, depending on the

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amount of fosters we have at the time.

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So we operate, a big network.

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We we've done about 150 adoptions

alone just since July 1st.

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So we get cats in, we get them homes,

but for every five cats that get adopted,

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we probably get calls for over 40

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And we do, we get cussed out, we

get talked we have people go off

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on us y'all are a cat rescue,

you should just take them."

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But we can't.

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We can't take every single one

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As much as we want to, we can't

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Dixie: Yeah, and it's goes back to another

thing too, like when people are on social

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media asking people to take cats, I know

a lot of the times there's times where

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people will just wanna give it to the

first person that says, "I'll take it,"

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you don't know anything about that person.

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At least go do your

research, do your homework.

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And it goes the same too if

somebody says that they're a rescue.

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Just ask them do you have any references?

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Can I call your vet?

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Do you have any photos?"

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Or just at least something to prove

that the cat is gonna be going to a

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place that's gonna be acceptable and

where they're gonna be treated well.

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Jonathan: And one of the other things that

I'll say also is a lot of times they s-

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they, if the person, if the finder of the

cat can even do a little bit of legwork,

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let's say you find a mom and a litter or

just you find a kitten, call in- instead

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of just trying to first surrender, see

if, "Hey if I was to foster this cat,

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can y'all help me find a home for it?"

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Or, "If I take the cat to go get

vetted, will that help get the cat

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into y'all's program a lot faster?"

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Because the answer is yes.

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We-- There, there's an amazing

resource, Dog People of Livingston.

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They're amazing.

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It's a low-cost spay/neuter.

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It's $60, you get them fixed,

vaccinated, and microchipped.

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Resources like that are available,

and a lot of times when the finder ta-

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can do the legwork and say, take them

to the appointment, get them fixed

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and and say, "Hey, I got it done.

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Here's the paperwork."

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We're able to work it into our program

because then we don't have to try

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to say, "Okay we got to go in and

get some appointments scheduled.

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We got to get them…"

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We're able to focus on finding

other ones homes, which allows us

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to make room to take that baby in

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Dixie: Yes I'm big on fostering in place.

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That's what I always try to tell

people, when they call me up.

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If you can foster in place, it's gonna

work out a lot better for everybody.

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Jonathan: And utilize the resources

of low-cost spay/neutering.

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Work with the rescues and, a, a lot of

times, or more so if you're fostering

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them in place and you're able to help, get

one, maybe two, or the whole litter, then

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from there, once they're ready to go, you

can even be a part of seeing them find

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their forever home at an adoption event

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'Cause you could bring your vol- your

fosters to an adoption event and volunteer

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at the adoption event with that animal

rescue, and you get to see the loving

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home that baby who you've cared for gets

to go and gets all the love in the world.

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Volunteering to help animal rescues,

animal shelters, it's what makes the life

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of cats, dogs, ferrets, whatever you're

looking at, wh- whatever kind of rescue

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it is, it makes them healthier and happier

because they got the love they needed

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Dixie: I know you said that the Humane

Society of Louisiana was involved.

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Do you know who the other

rescues are that were assisting

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with the cats that were found?

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Jonathan: I do know that the

Denham Springs Animal Shelter is

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playing a big intricate role in it.

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One of the kittens that w- that we did

take actually happened to come from Onyx

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Animal Rescue, and they put it back in…

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they took the one baby back

into their foster program.

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And there's just a bunch

of other volunteers who are

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stepping up to really help

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Dixie: Before we end the call,

do you have any final message?

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And can you tell people

how they can donate to you?

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'Cause like you said, you had to provide

all this intensive care to these kittens,

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and that's just the beginning of it.

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So how can people donate to you?

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Jonathan: They can go to our

website, animalrecovery.org,

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and click the Donate tab.

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That has our Chewy list, our

Amazon list, and all the ways

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that they monetarily can donate.

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They can also mail stuff or drop it

off to our rescue center, which is at

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12478 Highway 44 in Gonzales, Louisiana.

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And as far as one last thing I wanna say

is if we all can work together, whether

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you're finding a cat or a dog or any

of those, the more we work together,

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the more lives we can save together

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Dixie: That's a great closing

message, and I agree with that 100%.

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Thank you so much for coming on.

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I know it was a difficult thing

to talk about, but it's something

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that we definitely need to get

out there to raise awareness.

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Jonathan: I do agree.

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And, If we can all come together,

we can make an impact on the

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pet overpopulation in Louisiana.

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Dixie: Absolutely.

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Thank you for joining me today, Jonathan.

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Jonathan: Thank you for having me.