PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A custodian cleaning up a trailer at a Portland 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 to help turn a little-used trailer behind the school into a classroom.
The Oregonian reported the custodian found the animals in garbage bags, 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 volunteer said the animals were pets that had died of natural causes but it was too painful to part with them.
