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MORGANTON, NC (WBTV)- Five more dogs seized by authorities Monday afternoon in
Burke County after they discovered more than 100 on a man's property have had
to be euthanized. 110 dogs in all were confiscated from the property of 58 year
old Larry Buff.

Buff has been charged with 50 counts of misdemeanor cruelty to
animals and is jailed under a $75000 bond. 
The dogs were in what was described as "deplorable conditions" by animal
control officers.  Of the 110 seized,
only 75 are still alive and that number will drop say authorities.

A
veterinarian who checked the dogs Tuesday night said Wednesday he thought at
least 20 have a good chance of being adopted but says it is too early to tell
on the others. "All are infested with intestinal parasites, " said Dr. E.J.
Kennedy.  Those problems can be solved he
said but the big issue will be the socialization of the dogs.

MORGANTON, NC (WBTV)- The man who had more than 100 dogs seized from his property Monday night in Burke County was charged Tuesday with 50 counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals.

A tip led investigators to a home on Bill Epley Avenue south of Morganton Monday night.

They served an unrelated warrant of assault on 58-year-old Larry Buff and then proceeded to search the property and turned up 105 animals.

"Some are very dehydrated, others with open wounds," said Animal Control Officer Lt. Steve Massey.

Teddy Stamey of Burke County Friends for Animals said conditions were such that many of the dogs lacked any human contact at all. "Basically they lived their lives in little crates filled with mud and feces." She said the dogs were crowded together. "The crates being about two feet by four feet with four or five dogs inside."