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mrtonguetwista · « **on:** October 17, 2004, 01:34:57 PM »

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers police were investigating a report about fighting dogs being raised in a two-story apartment house. What they found was 97 cats, 7 dogs, several reptiles and a sea gull living with four young children and their mother.

One of the dogs, a pit bull, was shot and killed when it charged at the officers.

The woman in the house, 35-year-old Patricia Nichols, was charged with attempted assault, menacing and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police Chief Charles Gardner says the place smelled "like a dead body."

Child Protective Services took custody of the children. The animals were turned over to the Yonkers Animal Shelter.

Although police did not know why the woman kept all the pets, Yonkers Parks Commissioner Mitchell Tutoni said that the woman may have been paid $500 a month to house the cats. Tutoni said a self-proclaimed animal rescuer had been visiting area animal shelters and adopting cats that were due to be euthanized. The animal rescue person was bringing the cats to the Hawthorne Avenue apartment house.