Judge orders animals removed from Brooksville sanctuary

A Gulf Coast sanctuary will lose 200 animals after a judge determined they were living in squalor.

Carol Mas and husband Estebahn Agustinho were warned about neglect at Our Animal Haus. The Hernando County judge said he saw no malice, but the couple took on more than they could handle.

The removal was expected to start today.

Mas, a pop singer in the 1970s, said they were being foreclosed on and just needed a little help. In September, the Huffington Post Web site wrote about her musical past and shelter's financial problems.

An animal services supervisor said he saw evidence of animal hoarding syndrome. The couple kept dead carcasses in a freezer, and inspections found severely malnourished animals, filthy bird and cat cages and untreated disease and injury.