7News Staff Writer
TheDenverChannel.com

Authorities said 27 animals seized from a Fort Collins (Colorado) rescue shelter will be placed in temporary homes until a court decides their future.  Authorities said ranch owner Alesha Matchett could face animal cruelty charges. She has denied wrongdoing and said the animals were well cared-for.

"It's not the 1800s. You don't go in and rustle up and raid a ranch when I have never had one single animal control warning," Matchett said.

Her supporters believe the rescue operator did nothing wrong.

"I wouldn't have taken this case if I didn't believe in what Alesha's doing," said her attorney, Jennifer Reba Thomaidis.

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