{"id":421461,"date":"2026-10-07T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421461\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:20:07","slug":"deputies-remove-2-dogs-8-cats-from-florida-home-woman-jailed-on-cruelty-charges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421461\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies remove 2 dogs, 8 cats from Florida home; woman jailed on cruelty charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Two dogs without food or water and eight cats living in a room with an ammonia odor so strong it caused authorities to cough and gag were removed from a Florida home Monday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volusiasheriff.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volusia County sheriff\u2019s deputies said they assisted the<a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> in arresting 34-year-old Samantha Ashby of Osteen on 10 animal cruelty charges.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to a home at 481 Buckshot Ave. at about 11:16 a.m. to assist FWC with a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the home, deputies said they found two dogs in crates, including one crate containing an excessive amount of feces. Neither dog had food or water, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also found eight cats inside a room where deputies said the smell of ammonia was so strong that responding personnel began coughing and gagging.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/2-people-arrested-after-woman-attacked-shot-at-near-south-6th-street-fort-pierce-police-department-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Fort Pierce police arrest 2 people after woman attacked, shot at in Fort Pierce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said Ashby refused to surrender the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Volusia County Animal Services responded to the home and removed the animals from the property.<\/p>\n<p>Ashby was arrested and taken to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.volusia.org\/services\/public-protection\/corrections\/jail-and-bond-information.stml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Volusia County Branch Jail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not provide additional information about the animals&#8217; conditions after they were removed or details about what led to the search warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Two dogs without food or water and eight cats living in a room&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-421461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421461","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=421461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}