SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — 97 dogs and one tortoise have been rescued from a hoarder's home in Salt Lake City's Avenues.

After receiving an email from a viewer last weekend about the situation, action was taken to remove the dogs and tortoise from the home. Salt Lake County Animal Services was running low on space, and now, nearly 40 of the dogs are at the Humane Society of Utah.

"This has obviously been going on for a long time because we have dogs like Sugar House who are clearly seniors," said the Director of Pet Resource Center Operations, Juli Ulvestad.

The majority of the nearly 100 dogs appeared to be chihuahuas, but Ulvestad shared that they are all different ages. She noted one dog in particular — Sugar House — is around 13 or 14 years old. Ulvestad said that he is obviously a chi

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