DOVER-FOXCROFT (AP) – Animal welfare agents are providing medical treatment and care to 92 English springer spaniels that were seized from a home where they were living in unsanitary conditions without food or water.

Agents from the state animal welfare program on Friday used a warrant to search the home of Mark Hagelin of Gray Hill Road. Ten agents, veterinarians and volunteers took nine hours to catch, inventory and transport the dogs to shelters.

Fecal matter and urine were “everywhere, inside and outside the home,” said Rochelle Black, adoption manager for the Bangor Humane Society. “The animals had no access to food or water. Their bodies were basically eating themselves to stay alive.”

The dogs that were loose were drinking from puddles, and dead dogs were found on the property, she said. The amount of waste on the home’s floor was so great that it was seeping through and dripping into the basement, she added.

“This was a situation that just got out of control, and it was beyond his ability to care for this many animals,” she said.

As of Monday afternoon, Hagelin had not been charged with any crime. Norma Worley, director of the state animal welfare program, said she will forward a complaint to the Piscataquis County district attorney by the end of the week.

“The conditions were horrendous,” Worley said.

Calls to the Hagelin home on Monday were not returned.

Neighbors on Gray Hill Road said they had been complaining about dogs barking and running loose for at least three years. One neighbor said that the dogs often ran loose in packs of eight or 10, and that people walking in the area were afraid.

Steven Robinson, director of investigations for the American Kennel Club, said that Hagelin’s AKC breeder’s license was suspended in December for 10 years because he refused to make his records and kennel available for inspection when requested by AKC officials.

At least one of the English springer spaniels bred by Hagelin found its way to the Blaine House in Augusta. Sam was purchased by first lady Karen Baldacci from Hagelin, said Lynn Kippax, spokesman for Gov. John Baldacci.

“The first lady responded to a newspaper ad and went and saw the dog,” Kippax said. “That is the extent of the relationship between them.”

The seized dogs were sent to the Bangor Humane Society and the Kennebec Valley Humane Society in Augusta since the state does not have its own shelter, Worley said.