Bodycam footage shows the moment police discovered 167 animals crammed inside cages at a filthy and squalid house.<br /><br />Officers were called to a property in Rushden, Northamptonshire, after concerns about a bad smell and flies buzzing at the windows.<br /><br />Upon arrival, they discovered animals living in cramped and dirty conditions, with some forced to share cages with other dead animals.<br /><br />“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.”<br /><br />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.
