More than 130 cats were confiscated inside a Deltona home this month, but many sympathizers protested Saturday claiming the cats were healthy enough not to be euthanized.

Holding placards for drivers to see, Carmen Martinez and other cat rescue sympathizers demonstrated in front of the Daytona Beach Halifax Humane Society.

Earlier this month, Deltona Code enforcement seized 132 cats from Martinez's home and when she protested that seizure, she was baker acted.

But she was even more upset that all 132 were euthanized.

"It’s not fair. These people are killers," said Martinez.

Shelly Koch, another rescue cat sympathizer, said she and other rescue groups tried calling Halifax Human Society to find homes for those cats before the cats were euthanized, but claims those calls were ignored.

"They euthanized 132 of them in 36 hours," said Koch.

The group said the majority of the cats were healthy and most had documented vaccinations.

Those documents were displayed under pictures of euthanized cats in front of the Humane Society grounds. Documents the group claims the Humane Society ignored.

"They were vaccinated for the things that they were supposedly put down for," said Koch.

Officials with Halifax Humane Society said several of the cats were diagnosed with having a deadly disease, a disease so contagious, they say, that it could have wiped out the Humane Society's entire cat population.

The name of that disease is Panleukopenia.

"Those documents were never presented to us. We can only go on based on our medical team and our veterinarian and their testing showed that these animals were sick. So even if you had the documents you still had to test them? We have to test every animal," said Humane Society spokesman Tyler Stover.

Stover said even if they did not test positive for Panleukopenia, they were exposed to the disease already. He said some cats were already showing symptoms and had hours to live.

Stover explained that Panleukopenia is a disease that affects the cats intestinal tract, lymph tissue and bone marrow.

It is the number one cause of sudden death in cats and kittens in shelters.

Because of the fast transmission and viral shedding of disease before clinical signs are present, it is essential to eliminate disease carriers from the shelter population.