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Dolly came to us a few months back scared, skinny, and unspayed. She came from this house. Several wonderful people were rescuing cats out of this house trying to save as many as they could. We were able to take 3 great cats from this horrid house. One which has found a home already, Dolly and Holly who need their wonderful forever homes. Dolly is now ready for her new home. She is spayed, tested negative for felv/fiv and fully vaccinated. She is about 1 year of age (2004). Please give her a forever home. You can fill an application out www.nar.petfinder.com Read their story: Blanche Jones, 87, and her daughter Carol Dewey, 61, called themselves "Precious Paws," a cat rescue that accepted charitable donations and had a table at local cat shows. The Bucks County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the Bensalem women were neither a rescue nor a charity. Instead of holding cats for good homes, they hoarded them for themselves, the organization's director said Wednesday after a search of Jones' home in Bensalem and a township apartment she shared with her daughter. SPCA staffers found at least 10 dead cats and bagged animal remains at 1750 Hollins Road and 22 live cats and a dog inside 150 Cypress Court, an apartment at Korman Suites at Village Square. Living conditions at both addresses were unhealthy for man or beast, Bucks SPCA director Anne Irwin said. Animal cruelty charges are likely, she said. "This is a slap in the face to genuine rescue organizations," she said. At the Hollins Road house, dead cats were found in carriers and bagged animal remains were found in the back yard. From the ammonia-rich confines of the apartment, the masked SPCA staffers found each of the 22 live animals in a pet carrier lined with yellowed and browned newsprint. The smell from so much animal waste permeated not only the staffers' clothes but also the paper search warrant that accompanied them. When neighbor Jennifer Smith turned up the heat in her Bensalem apartment, she'd smell a litter box. "I was constantly taking out the trash because I thought it was coming from my place," Smith said Wednesday as the Bucks SPCA searched the Jones-Dewey apartment below her residence. Irwin called the mother and daughter "classic animal hoarders," noting that Wednesday's searches marked the third time the SPCA has taken pets away from Jones and Dewey, who have two prior convictions for animal cruelty, both summary offenses. A third conviction would be upgraded to a misdemeanor crime under a law passed in December. "One of the certain hallmarks of hoarders is that they lose the ability to see when their own living conditions and the living conditions of the animals have deteriorated," Irwin said. She said the SPCA would house the animals for the duration of its investigation, or until a judge says the animals can be put up for adoption. Each pet also will receive a veterinary examination. "We got people who want to provide homes for these animals," Irwin said. "There's no clock (ticking) on these cats." Dewey said Wednesday that the SPCA has "harassed" her and her mother for the past 20 years. Except for three the women owned, the cats that were seized by the SPCA were going to be adopted through a third party, Dewey said. "Why did they do this? Because (Irwin) hates us," she said.