ALBANY, N.Y. -- From the outside, it looks like any other house, but, investigators said looks can be deceiving. Inside a tidy Albany home they found nearly three dozen cats and dogs living in horrendous conditions.

"Everywhere in the house there was cat and dog urine, cat and dog feces, there were pools of urine on the floor," said Mohawk & Hudson Humane Society Executive Director Brad Shear.

Shear said investigators were called to breeder Joseph Grossman's South Street home Wednesday. A Long Island woman sent her cat to Grossman so he could breed it, and when she wanted it back, he refused to give it back.

"She came to get the cat, called the Albany police and he refused to let them in the house, and told them the cat had died," said Shear.

Investigators got a search warrant and altogether found 20 cats, mostly expensive hairless Sphinx cats. Plus, 14 dogs, including poodles and French bull dogs. Shear said all of the animals are sick with repository problems and a skin ailment that could be ringworm.

"He was making a pretty good living on the animals but he wasn't investing that money back into their care. There is no way you can healthy when you can't even breathe the air in the house," said Shear.

We went to Grossman's home, he wasn't there, but an unidentified woman who answered the door had no comment. Investigators could charge Grossman with animal cruelty as soon as next week.

But he told investigators he wants the six bull dogs back. Shear said the human society will challenge that in court. As for the dogs, Shear said all the animals should be healthy enough for adoption in a couple of weeks.