Investigators found terrible sores on the horses, some of whom had hooves so soft they could not walk properly.

As for the dogs, tartar had turned their teeth brown. Animal workers found 11 dogs suffering and say the neglect is obvious.

Several of the animals, including five horses and a mule, are skin and bones. But the owner insists she was doing everything right.

"I don't think they were in bad shape," she said.

Viglietta moved out of her Rochester home in December when it went into foreclosure and her utilities got shut off, but the animals stayed.

She claims she's been coming back twice a day to feed her animals.

"It's not my fault the sheriff shows up before I feed," she said.

But the officers involved in the raid paint a different picture.

"The stench was overwhelming of feces and urine," said Erika Quinn of Thurston County Animal Services. "You could see feces and urine lining the floor of the house. There was garbage and debris everywhere."

During her interview with KOMO News, Viglietta had feed on hand. But investigators say there was no food when they seized the animals. Water troughs were empty, they said, and they still were when KOMO News visited.

Animal control officers said the horses stood in deep muck, making their hooves soft, and giving one animal a painful abscess. But in Viglietta's eyes, the words are nothing but an exaggeration.

"They need their hooves trimmed, granted," she said.

The prosecutor plans to file criminal charges, but Viglietta insists she's done no wrong.

"I fed my horses. I watered my horses. I fed my dogs, you know," she said. "I don't know what else to tell you."

She could soon be telling that story to a judge with the possibility of 17 separate counts. Meantime, the seized animals are in desperate need of good homes.