Countywide : Many of Pets Found in House Adopted
Most of the 82 pets taken from a house in Yorba Linda last week have been adopted, but 21 of the cats were put to death Thursday, an Orange County Animal Control officer said.
Social services and animal control officers had jointly raided 5531 Grandview Ave. last Thursday after receiving an anonymous tip that residents there violated a county law limiting a household to three dogs and three cats.
The officers found that Lara Rayburn, 87, and her daughter, Margaret Rayburn, 59, had 4 rabbits, 10 dogs and 68 cats. The animals were taken to the county’s animal shelter in Orange.
Officials had said the animals would have to be killed if they were not claimed by Tuesday.
Fifty-nine of the animals were adopted, Animal Control Lt. Mary Van Holt said. Two of the dogs were reclaimed by a former owner who thought she had lost them, Holt added.
“We had a lot of happy stories here with a lot of people adopting the animals,” she said.
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