Authorities in West Tennessee arrested two women when they discovered 128 live dogs, one dead dog and a live cat inside a U-Haul Truck during a traffic stop on Interstate 40.

David Lytal, special agent in charge of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force, said an agent found the animals Tuesday after detecting a foul odor coming from the back of the truck on I-40 in Fayette County. Lytal says the agent found dog kennels stacked in the truck without food, water, or adequate air and had been in the truck since Saturday.

The women told authorities they were taking the animals from California to Virginia, but they did not say why. The driver, Bonnie Sherman, 55, and passenger Pamela King-McCracken, 59, were booked in Fayette County jail on aggravated animal cruelty charges. They were scheduled to have a court hearing Tuesday afternoon and had not yet secured lawyers, a jail official said.

Currently, the SPCA is providing temporary emergency shelter for the dogs.