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Animal police on Thursday said they discovered four dead dogs inside an Oakdale home, following numerous complaints from neighbors about deplorable living conditions inside the house.
Cops also found four dogs alive, along with a cat, inside 68-year-old Donna Hulse’s home at 17 Jade Street during their Wednesday visit to the residence. Hulse was arrested and charged with five counts of animal cruelty.
Roy Gross, chief of Suffolk’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SCPA), said people in the neighborhood had voiced concern about what they believed were dead dogs inside the residence and a strong stench of urine and feces coming from the home.
The Town of Islip fire marshal posted the residence as uninhabitable. Gross said Hulse signed over the surviving pets to the town’s animal shelter, where they will be examined and evaluated for adoption.
“We would like to thank the Town of Islip Animal Control for their assistance,” the SPCA said in a statement, “as well as local residents for their patience while the SCSPCA gathered evidence to bring charges forward.”
