Animal Cruelty Investigators recovered 31 animals, including a dwarf caiman and two pythons, from a Hitchcock home filled with garbage, debris and animal remains, according to the Houston SPCA.

Columbia police turned over the smooth-fronted caiman, also known as a Schneider’s dwarf caiman, to the care of John Fitzwalter, who operates Triple J Reptile Rescue in Elizabethtown.