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A 67-year-old woman and her daughter have admitted inflicting suffering on 48 cats kept in squalid conditions at their home in Manchester. A mother and daughter kept 48 cats in squalid conditions at their house in Manchester, a court heard.
Joan Adams and Anne, 43, both of Midlothian Street, Clayton, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering and will be sentenced next month. The bodies of two dead kittens were also found in a kitchen cupboard at the house in Midlothian Street, Clayton, Manchester, by RSPCA inspectors.
RSPCA inspectors discovered the cats living in their own faeces, Manchester Magistrates Court heard. Joan Adams, 67, admitted causing unnecessary suffering at Manchester Magistrates' Court.
They also found two dead kittens in a kitchen cupboard. Anne Adams, 43, was not in court but a guilty plea was entered on her behalf. They will be sentenced on 4 February.
One of the cats was put down because it had a large tumour in its mouth. The court heard from RSPCA chief inspector Cathy Hyde, who inspected the property on 18 March last year.
The RSPCA said the kitchen surfaces, walls, floors and the bath were covered in urine and excrement. She said: "The conditions these cats were living in were absolutely shocking.
They also commented on the smell in the property. The surviving cats are now in the RSPCA's care
The surviving cats are now in the RSPCA's care. "The smell was so strong that it made your eyes sting.
"Every surface was covered in faeces or wet with urine.
"Cats are notoriously clean animals, but they were filthy.
"Most of the conditions they were suffering from were as a direct result of that squalor."
The court heard that the cats were deprived of veterinary care and three of them had to be put down.
The discovery of the kitten corpses in the kitchen cupboard was not part of the RSPCA prosecution because their cause of death could not be proved.
The surviving cats were signed over to the care of the RSPCA.