SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- An Ohio couple found with 74 dead cats in their home face up to 90 days for animal cruelty, officials said.

A municipal judge in Clark County found Loyce Ogden and Craig Hunt of Springfield guilty Monday after they pleaded no contest to the charges, the Dayton Daily News reported. The judge scheduled sentencing for January.


The Clark County Humane Society found 124 cats in the house during a raid in September, officials said. There were 74 dead animals, most of them in the garage.

But investigators also found carcasses under the couple's bed and a dead kitten hidden by a pillow.

Ed Sisler, executive director of the Clark County humane society, said this was the first time he had found someone actually sleeping with dead animals. After the live cats were removed, he had to go through trash bags of dead cats.

"It's an experience I will long remember and care never to repeat," he told the newspaper.