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Mom-from-hell Louise Turpin treated her dogs better than her own kids, a new report reveals.
Cops collared the 49-year-old mother of 13 Sunday along with husband David Turpin and charged the pair with torture and child endangerment for imprisoning their children, aged 2-29, in their filthy suburban home.
The poor kids, who were only allowed one meal a day and just two showers per year, were so underdeveloped when authorities rescued them that officials say years of malnourishment likely stunted their growths.
But a pair of 1-year-old Maltese mixes that belonged to Louise were in “good condition” when Turpin handed them over to animal control following her arrest, City of Perris spokesman Joe Vargo told local paper The Press-Enterprise.
The pups — one black and one white — appear hale and hearty in photos taken by officials. The city is putting the dogs up for adoption, according to Vargo.
Other animals apparently did not fare so well under their care, including a kitten that was apparently left in a dumpster when foreclosure forced them out of a Rio Vista, Texas, home in 2010, according to the Daily Mail.
“They had a huge garbage dumpster at their house and we heard a baby kitten crying. We pulled a baby kitty from the dumpster and kept it,” said former neighbor Shelli Vinyard, whose daughter Ashley tried to befriend three of the older Turpin children, only to be given the cold shoulder once she started asking about their parents.
“There were other whimpering sounds coming from their property, but we could never find where they came from,” she added. “The dumpster smelled of death, who knows what was buried in it.”
Ashley briefly visited the home when the Turpins still lived there, and said it was like a barnyard inside.
“I remember there were animal cages and newspapers strewn about on the floor, piles with feces on it. They had dogs, cats and goats,” she said.



