This is really sad, but sounds simular to some other cases I have read about over the last several years. People (mainly women) opening up a no kill shelter claiming to be saving the animals and giving medical treatment with the help of one vet. When they found those other shelters all the animals were in horrible and filthy conditions as well, and one of them had a horse too. The shelter owners in all cases claimed to be innocent and just trying to rescue animals and also claimed to have
found them in poor conditions but didn't consider the conditions they were now in to be bad.
I couldn't understand why they kept them in horrible and filthy conditions and I can't understand why this woman would either. Especially if you are trying to save them
In one of the other cases it was decided that the woman had an animal hoarding disorder. My concern about people without the disorder is why would a person collect so many animals they can't financially or physically afford to take care of?