Hoarding Issues Pets
Websites about pet hoarding, the collecting of large numbers of pets without providing the proper care for them, failing to act as conditions deteriorate, and being unaware of the negative impact on the animals, their environment, and the owner.
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Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior.
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Loving Animals to Death - "Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches." [Salon]
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Amarillo Globe-News: Cat Collector to Seek Counseling - A brief article about a woman who recognized herself as a collector, yet her animals were well taken care of.
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LA Weekly: Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population - An extreme case of hoarding and the failure of local government agencies to deal with it.
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Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles.
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St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S.
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Collectors: Kindness Gone Awry - Factsheet from PETA about the disorder, with references.
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Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior.
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