Police discover 160 animals including birds and ferrets crammed in cages at squalid house

Bodycam footage shows the moment police discovered 167 animals crammed inside cages at a filthy and squalid house.

Officers were called to a property in Rushden, Northamptonshire, after concerns about a bad smell and flies buzzing at the windows.

Upon arrival, they discovered animals living in cramped and dirty conditions, with some forced to share cages with other dead animals.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” one officer says in the video, adding: “ There are birds, ferrets, rats, all sorts in every single room.”

The owner has since been identified and charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, and will be prevented from owning or keeping any animals for life.

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