article_snippet.sent: Rescue workers tasked with freeing almost 100 dogs that had been kept locked up in a blacked-out barn in Tennessee this week say Rescue workers were met with fear when approaching the animals, but not Rescue workers own. '
article_snippet.sent: I saw little to no emotion, and when I did see an emotion, I saw fear,' said Scotlund Haisley, president of Animal Rescue Corps, which led the rescue operation.
article_snippet.sent: The dogs, who had been living in complete darkness, were found last Saturday in the barn in Manchester; many emaciated, 'living in several inches of The dogs, who had been living in complete darkness own waste' and close to death.
article_snippet.sent: According to The Huffington Post, some had acid burns from the ammonia of some own urine, and there was also a wheelbarrow in the barn filled with 10 dead dogs piled on top of each other and covered in maggots.
article_snippet.sent: : Animal Rescue Corps workers help free almost 100 dogs that had been locked up in cages in a barn in Manchester, Tennessee, surrounded by Animal Rescue Corps workers own waste on last Saturday .
article_snippet.sent: In shock: Workers described the animals as being overcome with fear after living in tiny cages and total darkness for an unknown period .
article_snippet.sent: Filthy: Some of the breeds were unrecognizable because the dogs were covered in so much waste .
article_snippet.sent: Rescue: the dogs were in conditions that Animal Rescue Corps described as the worst the dogs've ever seen .
article_snippet.sent: Squalor: the dogs were kept in the barn without any windows in Coffee County, Tennessee .
article_snippet.sent: Nearly 100 dogs were rescued Sunday from a property in Coffee County, Tennessee, where officials say Nearly 100 dogs were living in total darkness inside a squalid, windowless barn .
article_snippet.sent: Deplorable: Many of the cages were rusted shut and Nearly 100 dogs had not appeared to have been fed in some time .
article_snippet.sent: It is unclear how police first came to find Nearly 100 dogs hidden in the barn.
highlights_snippet.sent: Almost 100 dogs were found locked up inside a windowless barn on Caroline Irby property in Manchester, Tennessee, without food or water .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Almost 100 dogs were emaciated and 'living in several inches of Almost 100 dogs own waste'
  10 other dogs were found dead stacked in a wheelbarrow .
  