FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. – Animal shelters are full-up and out of space with 72 dogs and cats rescued from a trailer house where they were cooped up for weeks and starving and dehydrated. The animals were picked up at the trailer after police found a woman’s corpse inside and arrested her grieving and apparently deranged husband. The husband, Arthur E. McMullin, 69, expressed deep concern for his deceased wife and “the kids,” Police called Tails of Hope, a rescue organization in Alma, to bring its large transport to the scene to pick up the animals. Some, however, had already run away and were being sought. Also, some were dead in the trailer The shelters all went online for donations of cat litter, wet kitten food, and paper towels. The influx has exhausted the shelters’ budgets, and they asked too for financial donations.
> Buffalo County Humane Association (at Mondovi): 47 cats.
> Trempealeau Couty Humane Society (near Blair): 11 cats and six dogs.
> Lucky Paws (in Baldwin): Eight dogs.
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Kristen Gregerson, administrator, Buffalo County Humane Association, about one dog: “You can see that he has a respiratory infection and that he still doesn’t feel well. But he looks so much better today than he did yesterday before he had his antibiotic shots. He’s hanging in there.”