Testimony in Summit animal cruelty case centers on living conditions
Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers, the owner of a local animal welfare organization and the man hired to take care of animals on a Summit Township farm spoke on Tuesday about what they called the poor conditions the animals were kept in on the Edinboro Road property.
Kennels full of feces. Feces caked on the animals. No visible food or water. At least two dead puppies, one of which was missing a head.
The group spoke under questioning by Erie County Assistant District Attorney Jessica Reger during the opening day of testimony in the preliminary hearing for Gregory S. Havican,…