PEYTON, Colo. (KOAA) — A Colorado woman at the center of an animal cruelty case has pleaded guilty to 15 of the more than 250 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty filed against her.

This past summer, the Delta County Sheriff's office says it seized more than 160 dogs and 95 cats in various stages of distress from the home of 78-year-old Barbara Bowman from Delta.

We showed you this video of the dogs arriving at National Mill Dog Rescue in Peyton.

NMDR's Director of Operations, Sarah Thompson, told me they got a call from the Colorado Bureau of Animal Protection to help rescue animals involved in an animal cruelty investigation at a dog breeder's home on the western slope.

Thompson said many of the dogs had to be immediately groomed, because of how matted their fur was.

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