PuP: People Understanding Pets

March 26th, 2010 by Peter

After insisting she had done nothing wrong seventy year old Virgina Wetzel was sentenced to six to 12 months in jail after being convicted of 25 counts of animal cruelty yesterday including twelve flea-ridden cats, nine dogs and four decomposing, mostly skeletal cats found in September.

The City seized and sealed the womans Port Richmond house and took 21 dogs and cats which she advised she had rescued from the streets. Waste piled six feet high was also removed from the premises.
Wetzel had been arrested in 2004 for similar charges. However this time the judge has barred her from owning any animals for fifteen years and ordered she pays the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals $32,304 as they were the ones who removed the animals and helped clear the house.