Cops Called To Investigate A Smell Didn't Expect To Find This

in april 2019 police from the city of toliara in madagascar received a strange phone call from an extremely worried resident they hurriedly told the officers that there was something seriously wrong with the abandoned house they were living next to it was giving off a strange rancid stench that was so sickening they were terrified to think of what might be going on behind the front door was there an illegal chemical operation hidden inside or maybe a dangerous gas leak of some kind well before i tell you you should grab your popcorn and get comfy because i promise you're not gonna believe what it [Music] was concerned about the strange tip-off the police made plans to follow up on this information and they turned up to investigate a little later that evening on the outside the quaint two-story home seemed totally normal but as the officers approached they suddenly gagged at the stomach-turning smell laughing through the air after they covered their noses and stopped wretching they quickly realized they could hear something out in the darkness several people were talking and more disturbingly digging the police rushed to investigate and discovered two men out in the garden hurriedly burying something but to their horror they discovered the men were stood over several pits that looked alarmingly like graves just what were they trying to hide without a moment to lose they detained the two men before bravely breaking into the house to uncover the cause of the stench but as they walked inside they were shocked to the core by what they found can you guess what it was crawling and scrabbling across every inch of floor were thousands upon thousands of tiny terrified tortoises and not just any tortoises these were exceedingly rare radiated tortoises a critically endangered species native only to the island of madagascar these poor creatures had been trapped and crammed into every single room of the two-story house even the bathroom and it seemed like they'd been kept there without much food or water a single sink in the bathroom was filled with rotten looking leaves but it had been kept cruelly out of the reach of the animal's hungry little mouths although it was stinkingly clear that they had been being fed for the most part because the floor was hideously thick with the animal's feces and urine the house clearly hadn't been cleaned in a very long time and it was these endless layers of excrement that was giving off the wretched smell after assessing the scene the police realized what had been going on the poor tortoises were being illegally trafficked radiated tortoises are coveted by collectors all over the world for the intricate star-shaped patterns on their shells but removing this critically endangered species from the madagascan wilderness is highly illegal so much so that 182 countries plus the european union have completely banned their export under the convention on international trade and endangered species of wild fauna and flora this means the tortoises had been unlawfully taken from the madagascan forest and were being stored for sale on the black market here depending on the tortoise's size they could be sold for upwards of a whopping 4 thousand dollars each so it was likely they were being secretly smuggled out of the country to callous buyers who didn't care where they came from or even worse to the asian food and traditional medicine markets where they're coveted for their meat as well as their shells fortunately these shelled sufferers weren't destined to end up on anyone's dinner plates police arrested the two men they found in the back garden as well as a third in connection to the crime of animal trafficking they then began the monumental task of rescuing every last turtle the house contained loading them onto trucks and transporting them to wildlife rehabilitation facilities but as the last one was placed on board they realized they hadn't just loaded one or two thousand of the little critters but an unbelievable 9888 of them although sadly they weren't in time to rescue all of them almost 600 had perished in the poor conditions of the makeshift holding facility some of which were being buried by those two very guilty men but if they'd gotten away with it and had gone on to sell each live tortoise for about four thousand dollars they would have made a staggering 39.5 million dollars with a payout like that it's no wonder they decided to gamble on setting up this illegal operation fortunately things didn't work out for them and the three shell-shocked offenders are now each spending about six years behind bars i wonder how they like being locked up with no room to move sounds like a seriously satisfying case of karma to me speaking of karma make sure you are on the right side of destiny by hitting those like and subscribe buttons all done great now that you're sure to receive some excellent cosmic karma let's take a look at even more incredible stories of abandoned animals found in the most unexpected places tiger trouble back in 2019 a local resident of houston texas was walking down the street when they spotted an abandoned house thinking it was completely empty they tried to sneak inside the dimly lit garage hoping to find a nice quiet spot to smoke a certain psychoactive substance the kind that's also known as the devil's lettuce if you know what i mean well as they were looking around they stumbled across something in the dingy garage that sobered them up real quick they rang the police and told the operator that they just found a full-grown tiger in the abandoned house after listening to this outrageous story the operator assumed that the caller was under the influence of the old wacky tobacco nevertheless the police went to investigate this hilarious claim but when they arrived at the vacant house they too discovered a massive adult tiger locked inside a very cramped cage although locked is perhaps the wrong word because its bars had been loosely secured with nothing more than a nylon strap and a screwdriver not only that but as you can see the poor creature was hugely overweight officers later found parcels of meat left nearby so it was clear someone was still caring for the animal but leaving it all alone in that tiny cage was just too cruel for words they tranquilized and transported the tiger to a sanctuary in texas before starting the hunt for its owner it took three months of searching for clues but they eventually tracked down brittany garza while there's no specific federal law against owning a tiger garza was in seriously hot water for the way she abandoned the animal she explained that she'd bought the tiger who she called raja when he was a cub but as raja started getting bigger she couldn't handle him and needed to find a new place for him to live she tried to explain that she was just storing raja in her friend's vacant home for a few days before he was due to be transported but this lame excuse wasn't good enough for the police as you can see they arrested her on the spot and charged her with animal cruelty if you ask me they should have charged her with being criminally stupid who buys a tiger without thinking they're going to get bigger they're called big cats for a reason fantastical fish mall in the middle of the busy streets of bangkok thailand lies an abandoned mall which once hid a surprising secret behind its crumbling walls the new world mall closed back in 1997 but just two years later a huge fire broke out inside destroying most of the interior and collapsing its roof over the years rainwater slowly began to pool on the ground floor which attracted some rather unwelcome visitors mosquitoes these bloodsuckers thrived in the wet humid environment and began plaguing the local area with their presence worried that the masses of mosquitoes could begin spreading diseases like dengue fever or malaria local residents put their heads together and came up with a simple solution instead of arduously draining the water or setting up thousands of mosquito traps they gradually introduced koi and catfish to the water the fish would snaffle up the eggs that the mosquitoes would lay on the surface keeping their annoying numbers low while also providing them with plenty of food it started off with just a few fish but it soon turned into a veritable aquarium as stunning as it looks sadly the complex turned pond was drained back in 2015. by the end more than 3 000 fish were caught and released back into the wild now that's what you call a sophisticated solution french fiasco the countryside of brittany in france is home to some of the most breathtaking sights in europe although there's one that'll take your breath away for all the wrong reasons in february 2020 the green valley brittany rescue group was called out to investigate reports of rogue animals running loose around a dilapidated property when they arrived the scenes that greeted them chilled them to the car outside they found a horse stranded in the middle of a field with its hooves so overgrown it could hardly walk another pony with these painfully overgrown hooves was also seen sadly plodding around along with many others in varying states of neglect but this was just the outside of the property pushing the front door aside revealed the home was trashed beyond comprehension piles of rubbish cluttered every room food was left rotting all over the kitchen and the utilities were clogged with muck and feces gross but that wasn't the worst part among all the rubbish abandoned cats and dogs were found to have been living in these treacherous conditions for weeks if not longer they were covered in poop vomit and all other kinds of yuck and clearly hadn't been cared for in a very long time after counting up a shocking 51 abandoned animals around the premises green valley got to work helping and re-homing many of them although the question remained of where the home's original owners had gone they did a little digging and discovered the owner had sadly passed away and her daughter who had inherited it all had been in a hospital with mental health issues it's a tragic case that shows the harsh reality of mental illness but thanks to green valley brittany many of these animals are now safe and happy raccoon chaos raccoons may look adorable with their little whiskers and big round eyes but these trash bandits are considered a common pest in america and that's mainly because of all the havoc they can cause from rifling through dumpsters to sneaking into walmart nowhere is safe from the reaches of these versatile little animals not even the highest roofs of your house as one stunned neighbor discovered back in 2015 if d captured the incredible moment where an entire family of eight raccoons deftly clambered up the brickwork of an abandoned house mom was leading the charge with one of her babies dangling from her mouth while the others slowly clambered after her they used nothing more than the grooves of the bricks to hoist themselves up trailing after one another like a hilariously furry conga line it looks like their mom found a hole in the roof of the abandoned building which she made a nest in and decided to call home traditionally raccoons make their homes in hollowed out trees or ground burrows but they're not fussy when it comes to hunkering down in warm sheltered spaces but unfortunately the next owner of this house is going to be in for a real nasty shock you see raccoons can have up to seven babies at any one time and they're born just nine weeks after mating so if this house is left for a year or two there could be a lot more raccoons living in the rafters yikes i wouldn't want to be the next person who moves in there because those roommates are going to be a pain to evict hoarding horror most of the quaint quiet houses of vinton iowa look perfectly picturesque on the outside but there's one in the middle of town that once concealed a horrendous secret back in 2018 a utility worker visited the house belonging to the galkowski family and to his surprise he saw a ball python snake freely slithering about the place these snakes famously squeeze their prey to death and can be incredibly dangerous so they're actually illegal to own inside vinton city limits concerned he rang the police who turned up to serve the kalkowskis a search warrant but before they could even step foot in the home the overpowering smell of urine feces and ammonia hit them like a brick wall crammed into every nook and cranny of the house were rows upon rows of caged animals they ranged from guinea pigs and rabbits to birds and reptiles all kept in inhumanely tiny cages peppered throughout the house most of them were living in incredibly unsanitary conditions with many even lacking food and water to make matters worse three young children also lived amidst all this filth potentially exposing them to infectious diseases after 700 living and tragically dead animals were removed from this house of horrors barbara and marshall galkowski were charged with both animal neglect and child endangerment barbara later pleaded that the animals weren't neglected but rescues which she and her family cared for deeply but the courts determined that was no excuse for forcing animals and children to live in those squalid conditions they eventually pleaded guilty but then brazenly they demanded to have all the animals returned to them obviously that wasn't going to happen although the judge was lenient and allowed them to keep ten guinea pigs one turtle and three lizards sure they had the best intentions but after seeing all that i personally wouldn't trust these people to look after a pet rock moving day moving houses can be a pretty stressful experience but could you imagine opening the door of your brand's new home only to find the floors and walls were slick with poop unfortunately this was the scene that one family moving to montana walked right into their new home had been freshly built on part of a relative's property and it was left empty for just one month before they found the time to move in they assumed that their relative was going down from time to time to check up on the new build though it became startlingly clear they'd done no such thing when the family finally arrived with all their possessions in tow they were startlingly greeted by four stray cows who had somehow managed to get inside the house they'd escaped from a neighboring farm and managed to nudge the nearby house's front door open before making themselves at home having investigated all the ground floor rooms they tracked in an ungodly amount of mud which was splattered all across the floors and walls they also added to the interior design by pooping everywhere so the house looked as bad as it smelled oh boy that's one way to start a huge beef with your neighbors dreadful dog in 2014 on the outskirts of lindhurst new york something furry snuffled about an old abandoned house the tenants of the property had moved out a year ago but they hadn't owned any animals so when a local resident found this heart-wrenching creature shuffling through the premises he knew something wasn't quite right beneath layers and layers of matted filthy fur and horribly overgrown claws was a very small and very frightened little dog but his condition was so bad that he could barely walk thankfully the resident wasted no time and took him straight to the babylon animal shelter while the dog's condition was one of the worst the shelter's volunteers had ever seen they were determined to help him it took a lot of elbow grease to detangle the poor pup but after three grueling hours a whopping four pounds of fur was safely removed from the 11-pound dog his claws were also trimmed down to a more manageable length but that wasn't enough to get him back on his feet the determined dog had to undergo physical therapy to learn how to properly walk again though it was all worthwhile as later that year he was able to stand up and potter around without any pain the shelter gave him the incredibly cute name ziggy before posting a two thousand dollar reward for any information about his cruel and callous abandonment unfortunately no one has come forward but even so ziggy's story has an incredibly happy ending after seeing his heartbreaking story in the news the lee couple rushed to the shelter and despite all his special needs offered to give ziggy a forever home now if that doesn't restore your faith in humanity i don't know what will creature feature now as soul destroying as ziggy's story was he's not the only animal to be engulfed by his own fur following years of neglect back in 2016 paul russell from pennsylvania went to clear out the home of a distant relative the old man had suffered severely from dementia so he'd just been moved into a nursing home but paul remembered that he'd owned a cat so he took it upon himself to go down to the house and leave out food for the animal as he began searching around the house for the elusive feline something suddenly darted out from under a bed it was a huge bulging animal that looked like it had 10 separate limbs almost like some kind of giant spider before he could do anything it quickly disappeared downstairs toward the cellar curious and a little frightened paul grabbed a flashlight and made his way down the darkened steps he scoured the cellar expecting something to leap out at him as if he was in a horror film but his flashlight finally caught the creature he was looking for it was a frightened calico cat with huge dreadlocks of matted fur erupting from her back which looked incredibly painful to carry without hesitating paul gathered the cat up and took her to the animal rescue league and wildlife shelter in pittsburgh there after the vet team picked their jaws up off the floor they carefully shaved the dreadlocks off which weighed a whopping two pounds in total it seemed that his elderly relative hadn't been able to brush the cat's long fur which had grown slowly more matted over the years but after a good shave she was revealed to be a perfectly happy and healthy cat who now looks more like a little lion than a spider scary super kings way back in 1828 europe was nowhere near as clean and pretty as it is today filth lined many of the streets disease was rife and rats thrived in the dirty conditions but in the town of thuringia germany something even more vile was lurking up an unsuspecting fireplace the local miller was doing a little spring cleaning one day when he discovered a terrifyingly scorched clump of rats hidden up his chimney somehow 32 of the now mummified rodents had their tails twisted together in a colossal knot forming what's unnervingly known as a rat king although it wasn't the first or last of its kinds to be discovered sightings of these malevolent masses have been reported as far back as 1567 and in 2005 a farmer in estonia discovered this cluster of 13 rats though not all of them were alive at the time it seems that sticky substances like dirt sap or even feces could glue the rat's tails together and as they scrabbled around trying to free themselves more rats would accidentally become entangled in the nasty knot this bizarre phenomenon inspired hideous myths and legends with many people claiming their existence to be outright hoaxes after all what was to stop someone from tying the tails of these rats together as part of a sideshow attraction or a valuable museum exhibit well what if i told you that rats aren't the only animals that experience this horrifying fate more recently recordings like this one have shown mice hopelessly tied together by their tails i don't think any human has not tying skills that good and what's more even squirrels have been recorded all tangled up in the same sticky fate these five juvenile squirrels had their tails stuck together with the sap of a tree branch leaving them all but helpless in the wild guyam dutil spotted the tangled treelings and was able to dissolve the sap with some rubbing alcohol freeing all five of them although others aren't as lucky like this poor squirrel king it's impossible to tell just how long they've been stuck together but it's been long enough for them to have learned how to work together to climb up a tree yikes so seeing how mice and even squirrels have fallen victim to the tangle of their own tails do you think rat kings are real creatures or just cryptids let me know what you think down in the comments piglet problems piglets are adorable animals that enjoy nothing more than a good roll around in the mud but not every piglet has such a happy start to life as poor cherry blossom here experienced that's right despite the stony looking surface there's actually a piglet underneath all those cracks she was brought into a california shelter by a man who claimed to have found her abandoned on the side of the road the poor piglet was suffering from a severe case of sarcoptic mange a skin disease that covered her in painful scabs from snout to tail it's caused by parasitic mites bearing into the skin which are usually found in cramped unclean conditions it was a very odd case and shelter volunteers started to suspect that the man who'd brought her in was really her owner he must have forced her to live in squalid conditions and when she got too sick to care for he dropped her off the shelter to avoid any blame but unfortunately the shelter wasn't equipped to care for a pig and her supposed rescuer had suddenly disappeared scared she might not survive the shelter reached out for help and miraculously the owners of the sail ranch sanctuary came to save the day they took the little piglet who was in excruciating pain and began treating her with healing creams medicines and even laser light therapy slowly but surely she began to improve and after two months of treatment combined with lots of love she transformed into a completely healthy and happy piglet so thanks to the incredible work of the sail ranch sanctuary little cherry blossom now gets to live her life as happy as a pig in mud which of these animal discoveries shocked you the most let me know down in the comments below and thanks for watching you

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Published: Tue Mar 16 2021