BROOKFIELD, Ohio -- An Ohio woman who had her 97-year-old mother and 200 animals taken from her filthy home has been prohibited from having pets for five years.
Fifty-nine-year-old Kathy Witzman of Gustavus Township in northeast Ohio's Trumbull County was put on probation Thursday on her guilty plea to misdemeanor animal cruelty.
She says her pet ban will mean unwanted animals will go to a shelter that will kill them because it lacks room. The animal shelter in her area says it has no intention of doing that.
Authorities reported unhealthy home conditions including a urine stench, underfed dogs lacking water and some kept in backyard cages.
The woman's mother was covered in filth and underfed. She was taken to a hospital and then a nursing home.
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