Adams County’s “unprecedented” pet surge: Five hoarding probes push shelter past 540 animals
By Adria Iraheta | Denver7
The Riverdale Animal Shelter has received mass intakes from five investigations in the past two months. Denver7 spoke with shelter officials about how you can help.
BRIGHTON, Colo. — The Riverdale Animal Shelter in Brighton is looking to the community for support after receiving hundreds of animals from multiple hoarding cases over the past two months.
On Wednesday alone, the shelter took in more than 100 animals from a home in the 14600 block of Umpire Street in unincorporated Adams County as part of an animal cruelty investigation. No arrests have been made, according to Sergeant Shea Haney with the Adams County Sheriff's Office.
“Upon execution of the search warrant, they seized about 101 animals from the property," Haney told Denver7. "Sugar glide...

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