{"id":364163,"date":"2026-08-06T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364163\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:56:54","slug":"worst-animal-hoarding-case-in-martin-county-grows-even-larger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364163\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Worst Animal Hoarding’ Case In Martin County Grows Even Larger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin County’s sheriff had already called it the ‘worst animal hoarding case’ he’s ever seen and now it’s even larger. <\/p>\n

77-year-old Gail Giustino was arrested last month after detectives found 92 animals, mostly cats, living in hot and deplorable conditions in cages at her home. <\/p>\n

Those pets were taken to the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast<\/a>, where the number has grown to 108 animals. Officials say friends of Giustino’s have been dropping them off, saying the suspect had been bringing the animals to them. <\/p>\n

Sheriff John Budensiek says the U.S. Postal Service worker had been picking up the cats while on her delivery route. <\/p>\n

But it was soon determined that many of them were not ferrel, as they were micro-chipped. <\/p>\n

Workers and volunteers at the Humane Society in Palm City are working on getting medical clearance for the animals and putting them up for adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin County’s sheriff had already called it the ‘worst animal hoarding case’ he’s ever seen and now it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,84996,115,171,173,172,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-364163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}