Dozens of Dead Cats Found in Home
Twenty-six cats found still alive were taken to an animal shelter.
Reported By: Jennifer Leslie
Reported By: Blair Meeks
Web Editor: Manav Tanneeru
Last Modified: 2/8/2005 8:07:03 AM


A woman may be charged with animal cruelty following the discovery of dozens of dead cats at her home in North Fulton County.

Investigators say they found 134 dead cats in various states of decomposition at the home belonging to Lauri Lockwood last week. The home is located on Alstone Field Drive in Alpharetta.

Twenty-six cats that were found still alive were taken to the Cat Clinic of Roswell for treatment. Some required extensive medication and hospitalization.

“I’ve been doing this awhile but I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said David Smith, the executive director of Fulton County Animal Services. “We kept finding more and more and more as we dug through garage bags, inside of cat carriers, inside of cat cages."

The county health department has condemned the home for the inhumane conditions inside.

“The word on the street was she had some dead cats but we didn’t know the magnitude of it,” said Prasanna Chikte, a neighbor.

Chikte said the homeowner has not returned to the home since police went inside last week.

The police report indicates the homeowner was out of town at the time. The woman’s ex-boyfriend contacted her veterinarian because he was worried about the cats and the veterinarian called police.

The Fulton County district attorney is waiting for test results on how the cats died before reaching a decision on any charges. Smith said initial indications are that the cats died of starvation and dehydration.

Lockwood had volunteered for two different cat rescue organizations during the past several years and she is well known in animal rights circles.

Many said they were surprised by the discovery of the dead cats.

Fulton County Animal Services asked for donations to help the cats found alive. Those cats will also eventually have to be adopted.

For more information about the cats or how you can help, please visit www.fultonanimalservices.com.
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Sometimes I hate humans!!!!!!

Insane!!! She's volunteered at TWO different cat rescue organizations?!

Crazy. What scum.

I can't even begin to imagine the smell of 134 living cats in one house...much less the smell associated with 134 rotting ones.

Jesus! What filth! How could you take in so many cats only to let them starve and die!?

Grottie

That's really messed up. How could any one have so many cats and just let them die like that. If she didn't want them she should've just given them to the shelters. I hope she gets some serious time.

What is with this latest cat-killing epidemic?

I dislike cats, but what she did is wrong. I feel sorry for those cats...makes me reconsider disliking them so much...

All I can say is gross... wonder what they used to clean the litter.....

Obviously she didn't, since she just abandoned them.

134 dead cats and you're wondering what they used to clean the litter?

Do you even think they had litter?

i hope she gets some real bad punishmet.

Thats sick killing all them cats and staving them

If this woman doesn't have a serious mental health issue, she really needs to be locked away for some time.

That'd cost so much to feed all those cats... but i guess she never had to worry about that...

That's just... urgh...

All I can say through clenched teeth is that this lady is a monster who deserves to suffer for what she did to these poor animals, to me she isn`t even a human being!

ok ok.... it's just common sense she didn't use litter....geesh...

It's barely February and 2005 hasn't been all that great.