MORE than 40 puppies were found housed in squalid living conditions at a Moorabool puppy farm during a secret raid this week, according to animal activists.Animal Liberation Victoria secretly visited the Beremboke puppy farm near Anakie on Monday night and said they were shocked at the horrific conditions.Campaign manager Debra Tranter said it was a horrible night, with puppies found in cages and chained to cars surround by their own faeces and rotting meat.She said there were also countless pig and piglets roaming the property, which she described as a huge derelict junk yard.''The dogs have no access to water ... there were no food bowls, we filmed rotten meat thrown on the ground,'' she said.''They were living in really unhygienic conditions.''Last week the Moorabool Shire Council denied Melinda and Les Paxton a permit allowing them to run the puppy farm, after claims they had as many as 59 dogs on their property at one time.Neighbouring property owners complained about dogs escaping, excess ive noise and people shooting kangaroos to feed the dogs.Mr Tranter said it has since been revealed council officers visited the site in September last year and witnessed the shocking conditions but did nothing about it.''The most upsetting thing out of the whole property was that all the authorities, both the RSPCA and council, have known about this for eight years and done nothing,'' she said.''After they photographed dead dogs chained to trees last September they should have acted then, charged the man and seized the surviving dogs.''The Moorabool Shire is seeking an enforcement order from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to clean up the conditions on the site.