OLYMPIA — An Olympia-area man accused of starving, torturing and slaughtering small pets that prosecutors say he purchased through online ads has been ordered held on $150,000 bail.
The Olympian reported that David C. Williford, 26, was arrested Friday on 12 counts of animal cruelty and appeared Monday in Thurston County Superior Court.
Court papers say animal services officers who searched the man’s property recently found coolers full of rabbit carcasses and several bags of guinea pig carcasses, as well as a bloody basement and walls splattered with blood and chunks of flesh and fur.
Williford and public defender Alex Frix say the man used the animals for food.
KING-TV says a veterinarian determined one of the dead guinea pigs was killed by blunt force trauma following “undue suffering.”
The TV station says two dogs, two rabbits and three rats were seized from the home.
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