LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — An Alabama district attorney has filed a complaint asking for approval for 29 dogs taken from a home in July to be adopted at the expense of their former owners.

On July 1, 29 dogs were confiscated from the home of Steven Reynolds & Teresa Counce on County Road 6 in Lauderdale County. Later, while in the custody of the Florence-Lauderdale Animal Shelter, four puppies were born.

The Lauderdale County District Attorney filed a lawsuit July 23, asking a judge to allow those dogs to be adopted.

The complaint said Reynolds and Counce "have demonstrated a complete inability to properly care for said dogs." The Lauderdale County sheriff told Nexstar's WHNT that this was the same house from which 82 dogs were confiscated from in January.

Authorities have since

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