Update: Animal Society receiving calls to adopt animals seized from Hollywood home

The Charleston Animal Society had started receiving calls Thursday morning from people wanting to adopt some of the scores of animals seized from a Hollywood home a day earlier.

Authorities acting on a tip found more than 150 animals behind the property on 7295 S. S.C. Highway 162. They also recovered 27 animal carcasses.

Many of the live animals already were in foster care, said Kay Hyman, the Animal Society's director of outreach and communications. Those included 74 chickens with severe lice, six pheasants, four guinea hens, 11 quail, 11 pigeons and six geese. Hyman said the shelter had taken in 11 rabbits, three goats, one pheasant, two dogs, one cat, 15 mallard ducks, 13 Muscovy ducks and one domestic duck.

"They're really not in bad shape other than lice, parasites," Hyman said. "They're not emaciated. It looks like they were fed."

But, she added: "They were really dirty (...) especially the dogs (...) We had to bathe them several times."

The society had to euthanize one elderly duck, she said.

Charleston County Sheriff's deputies cited the property owner, 64-year-old Richard Gilliard Sr., with ill treatment of animals. Family at the home declined to comment on Wednesday. The Sheriff's Office could not be reached Thursday morning for an update on the investigation.

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