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 three 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 gliders, some rats, a hedgehog, snakes."

The shelter has received mass intakes from five investigations in the past three months — an unprecedented situation in Adams County.

“It's not common at all,” Ha

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