The Silver Lining to a Tragedy

"It's horrific, sorry, this is the first time it's hit me. It's bad, its bad it just bad."

After working through the night, Daneen Balistere is back in Summerdale doing what she can to help. So are a lot of other people. "ARF, Stray Love every vet clinic has taken dogs. Everybody has done everything they can," says Balistere.

Hundreds of volunteers answered the call for help. Don Winck was one of them. "There's is just no excuse for what we found." He brought with him a pressure washer to start washing away the squalor that dogs had been living in for weeks. "Whatever they do is not enough. Whatever they can do is probably not enough. What they should do is treat em the way they treated these dogs. Put em in a kennel, leave bags of food right out side and they can't have it."

The kennels are empty. The dogs are all gone. Humane society officials say this house of horrors was never a rescue or shelter it was something so much worse. "What we discovered is a hoarding situation," says Baldwin County Humane Society Executive Director Sonja Presley.

By the end of the day all the survivors had truly been rescued and in the process a little bit of hope restored to a community. "Everybody that has been so mortified about how bad this has been they've done everything and anything they can to help out and that's the silver lining."

The biggest need now is cash to cover medical costs and foster homes. To find a list of what is needed or how to become a foster family to one of these abused animals got to www.baldwinhumane.org.