article_snippet.sent: Former animal shelter worker Catherine Lynn Smith, 50 (pictured), was arrested Tuesday after the bodies of 10 cats and three dogs were found decaying in her home, which had been auctioned off .
article_snippet.sent: Police came across a sickening scene in Macon, Georgia Georgia this week when Police searched the home of a former animal shelter worker.
article_snippet.sent: Smith was arrested on Tuesday after the bodies of 10 cats and three dogs were found decomposing in Smith former home littered with over 1,000 empty beer cans.
article_snippet.sent: the home of a former animal shelter worker was recently auctioned off, and new homeowner Ed Harrell was checking out the property in the afternoon when Ed Harrell found a dead dog just inside the doorway and called police.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the animals found dead in Smith home were still in cages . '
article_snippet.sent: Neighbor William Hopkins was outside House of horror when police started removing the bodies. '
article_snippet.sent: police were carrying out cages containing what look like, old dried out leather,' Neighbor William Hopkins told 41 NBC. '