FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Fort Myers house was filled with garbage and the bodies of a dozen dead animals. Some animals were still alive.

A rescue clinic was struggling to save them, and even find all of them because the home is so trashed employees can't reach many of the animals.

The animals were discovered Friday, and a day later, people couldn't enter the house without wearing a mask. That's how bad the smell was.

37 cats, two dogs, and almost one dozen dead cats were found in a home with an 87-year-old woman.

"She's probably a hoarder, yes, but her intentions were good," the owner of Affordable Animal Care Clinic Gina Brashear said.

Friday, the homeowner was taken to the hospital with a broken hip, and all of her animals were left in the home without power or air conditioning.

The site was shocking.

"The floor was like a dumpster, like someone had a gigantic dumpster and threw garbage threw the whole house," Kathy Tufaro said. "There were cages with animals, cats in them, crazed, just clawing at the cages full of feces and newspapers, layers and layers of newspapers with feces in them."

The smell was worse.

"The ammonia smell is over powering," Tufaro said.

Employees with the Affordable Animal Care Clinic tried to rescue the animals, but they said they're in over their head.

"We'll take all the help we can get," Brashear said.

People at the home Friday said Lee County Animal Services visited, but would not take the animals because they didn't have a search warrant. WINK News called Lee County Animal Services, but no one was available.

You can also find information about the Affordable Animal Care Clinic by calling 239-694-7271 or visiting www.affordableanimalcareclinic.com.