Animal control workers rescued more than 70 cats from a home in Dunwoody.
 
Investigators say the conditions inside that home were so bad, animal control officers needed hazmat suits to enter.
 
Lisa Johns walked Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri through Good Mews animal foundation in Marietta where more than three dozen of the cats removed in Wednesday's operation are now being housed.
 
Dunwoody police say they worked with DeKalb County's animal cruelty unit to serve a search warrant at a house on Atcheson Lane for suspected animal hoarding.
 
"The conditions were deplorable. There were feces," Johns said.
 
Johns and several volunteers helped investigators remove more than 70 cats from the house after a local vet said the people brought in 20 cats for treatment recently.
 
"I had absolutely no clue that there was anything in there; none," said Sheila Jiwani
 
Jiwani lives just down the street and noticed the trucks outside the home.
 
"We never see them. They're very private. We never see cars and people coming out of this place," Jiwani said.
 
Wednesday evening no one answered the door at the home but Channel 2 Action News did see at least one cat still inside.
 
Johns says many of the animals have upper respiratory and eye infections. At least one cat is pregnant and she had to send two to the emergency room Wednesday night.
 
"There were a couple that were very sick and needed to seek medical attention immediately," she said.
 
Investigators haven't identified the people living in the home but say they were charged with animal cruelty just two years ago after having more than 50 cats in bad conditions.