WAUKESHA, WI (WTAQ) – A suburban Milwaukee couple will spend two years on probation for neglecting three kids and mistreating more than 300 chinchillas.
51-year-old Garrett Rees and 39-year-old Tricia Rees of Muskego pleaded no contest Wednesday to two Waukesha County charges of child neglect and having improper animal shelters. Three similar counts for each were dropped in a plea deal.
Authorities say they were overwhelmed by the smell of animal urine when they responded to a complaint at the Rees home last March.
They found about 25 dead chinchillas and seized almost 320 others — and the county animal welfare society says all but 50 of the chinchillas were later adopted by others, with the Reeses keeping the rest.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
