WATCH: Exotic Pet Store Owners' Home Raided, 2,000 Animals Found

BRIGHTON, CO. - New animal abuse charges were filed by Adams Co. prosecutors against the owners of the former Jurassic Pets store in Thornton, after a search warrant revealed more than 2,000 animals, at least 50 dead, in poor living conditions at the home of Kenneth Mark Kubic, 63, and Lynn Denise Kubic, 56. The couple were on probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges in 2016.

The charges followed a raid on the Kubic's unincorporated Adams Co. home, where investigators found a basement filled with more than 2,000 animals, including more than 500 live hedgehogs, sugar gliders, snakes, and other reptiles, reports said. Investigators found dead hedgehogs and snakes, and rodents in filthy tubs in stacked in rows of shelving units.

The Kubics were charged with 36 counts each of felony animal abuse. Charges were filed July 27, but only recently unsealed by the Adams Co. District Attorney's office.

PETA reported Wednesday that they had obtained reports, photos and video from the raid:

Almost all the snakes were being kept without access to water, and an emaciated bearded dragon and 18 snakes needed immediate veterinary care for respiratory infections, oral and ocular abscesses, dehydration, and other issues.
In the Kubics’ “rodent factory,” nearly 1,500 mice and rats (and the remains of dozens of others) were found in small bins and cattle troughs. Two flooded bins held dead mice and maggots, and an additional mouse bin was actively flooding. Many of the surviving mice were kept in filthy, severely crowded bins.

PETA posted a video taken by officials from Adams County officials and the Colorado Dept. Dept. of Agriculture taken during the execution of a Dec., 2016 search warrant on the Kubic's home in unincorporated Adams Co.

WARNING: This video contains disturbing images

“Just months after being convicted of cruelty to animals, Kenneth and Lynn Kubic were causing small animals to suffer and die in hellish conditions in their basement and shed,” says PETA Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations Daphna Nachminovitch in a statement. “These are serial animal abusers who must be barred from ever harboring an animal again.”

In December 2016, the Adams County District Court found Lynne Kubic guilty of contempt of court for violating a permanent injunction, after she was ordered to close an unlicensed rodent facility, Willard's Rodent Factory.

In March, Lynne Kubic was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $1000 fine.

Read more in the Denver Post.

Image: A photo collected by officials of rats kept in a plastic tub in a shelving unit in the home of Kenneth and Lynne Kubic. Colorado Dept. of Agriculture/Adams Co. Sheriff.