{"id":153367,"date":"2026-03-31T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:26:07","slug":"griffin-pond-rescuing-dozens-of-cats-from-hoarding-situation-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153367\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Pond rescuing dozens of cats from hoarding situation \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griffin Pond Animal Shelter is investigating a cat hoarding situation, described as the worst they\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The shelter announced Monday it rescued 22 cats and anticipated the rescue of 15-20 more, still inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what the future holds for any of these cats but we know we will be there every step of the way,\u201d the shelter said in a statement. \u201cThey are struggling to eat, ravenous, but too much too soon causes them to get sick and it runs right through them. To have to witness this type of devastation is the stuff nightmares are made of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shelter staff are asking for monetary donations and donations of necessary items for the influx of cats.<\/p>\n<p>Links for donations can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GriffinPond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GriffinPond<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials say charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griffin Pond Animal Shelter is investigating a cat hoarding situation, described as the worst they\u2019ve ever seen. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-153367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}