Des Plaines "Cat House" Featured on COPS

If you love A&E's Hoarders you won't want to miss tonight's episode of COPS, which features footage of the Cook County Sheriff's Police as they busted a man in summer of 2010 for hoarding animals and animal cruelty in unincorporated Des Plaines.

David Heim, 53, was eventually charged with 53 counts of animal cruelty after police found his home full of more than 50 live cats, a rabbit, turtle and snake, as well as dozens of dead cats. The home was full of feces and flies. Heim had abandoned the home himself because the smell had become too much for him, according to a news release from the Cook County Sheriff's Department.

The show's segment is from a six-week ride along between COPS producers and Officer Robert Mousel that occurred last summer. This will be the third segment aired from that time period. It is the first time in the show's 22 year history that they followed a local police department. 

Cops airs on Fox-32 at 7 p.m. Saturday.