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“17 dead pets found in Ore. school's freezer - Observer-Reporter”

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17 dead pets found in Ore. school's freezer - Observer-Reporter

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 12:57 AM PDT

9/11/2010 3:31 AM

Associated Press

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - School officials say a custodian cleaning up a trailer at an Oregon school found 17 dead pets in a freezer, including six cats.

Portland Public Schools officials said the principal at Ockley Green School asked the custodian in July to help turn a little-used trailer behind the school into a classroom.

The Oregonian reports that the custodian found the animals in garbage bags and frozen solid in an upright freezer. Besides the cats, there were two hamsters, two goldfish, two frogs, a guinea pig, a hedgehog, a parakeet, a lizard and a spider.

A longtime school volunteer says the animals were pets that had died of natural causes but it was too painful to part with them.

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The volunteer was relieved from further duties. Police say she wasn't cited because the animals had not been abused.

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