40 dogs rescued from squalid California apartment. ‘One of the worst hoarding situations.’

Forty dogs have been rescued after they were found living in squalid hoarding conditions in a La Mesa apartment earlier this week.

San Diego Humane Society officials said the dogs, many of them puppies, were found when police conducted a welfare check late Monday evening at the unit where the resident was facing eviction and hadn’t been seen in several days. No further information about the renter or her whereabouts was available.

Investigators requested the assistance of San Diego...