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Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, November 20, 2011
By Mary Beth Lane
Animal Hoarders put animals and self at risk
“How many animals is hoarding? It’s less of a number than a failure to
recognize
when you can no longer care for the animals,” said Ashley
Mauceri, deputy director
of animal-cruelty investigations for the
Humane Society of the United States. Hoarders
don’t mean to hurt
their animals
and, despite all obvious signs, often don’t realize that
they
are..." "......... Their cooperation impressed
humane agents Kris Webb and Danyel
Bageant, who returned to the
Millers house cats Lil 8, Neon and Shy, and hound mix
T-Bone after
having them neutered. That is all the animals they are permitted.“We
don’t
always return animals,” Webb said. “Karen and Ron are nice
people. They just had a
problem they needed help with.”
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/11/20/animal-hoarders-put-pets-and-selves-at-risk.html
Huffington Post.com,
September 21, 2011
Berwyn animal hoarders
defend squalid conditions that may have led....to teens death.
(
video )
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/family-of-teen-found-dead_n_974552.html
The News Messenger.com,
Freemont, Ohio, September 15, 2011
By Mark Tower
Hoarding: Humane societies
find too many animals in homes
"Hoarding has become, all of a sudden, a
recognized problem," Freedheim said.
"Because there is more attention on it right now, there seems to be more
cases of it,
but they are likely just old cases coming to light."
http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20110915/NEWS01/109150301/Hoarding-Humane-
societies-find-too-many-animals-homes?odyssey=nav%7Chead
CLTV, Illinois, September 9, 2011
By Christy
Gutowski and Matt Walberg,
Tribune reporter Jim
Jaworski and
freelance reporter Clifford
Ward contributed
Mother investigated after
boy dies, home found overrun with animals
"A day after her son
died of pneumonia, a Berywn woman was being
investigated
by police and child welfare
officials after authorities removed nearly 200
animals --
including birds, cats,
a fruit bat and a raccoon — from the home where
she lived
with her five children, officials
said Friday."
http://www.cltv.com/news/chi-mother-investigated-after-boy-dies-home-found-
overrun-with-animals-20110909,0,2800907.story
A Personal Account- Blog
"When does gathering animals and caring for them cross the line from
being a hobby and a passion to a problem,
a mental disorder, a life threatening issue for man and beast? In
truth, I think it may be seldom recognized except
in situations where finances or health do not
allow the continued quality care of the animals involved....."
Examiner.com, June 29, 2011
81 Cats found in Cicero home had to be Euthanized, many others found dead
According to UPI, Cicero
spokesman Ray Hanania said the cats were taken to
the Animal Care League
in Oak Park
for evaluation, included was testing each
cat for feline leukemia, a
highly contagious disease among cats.
The cats were confirmed positive."
http://www.examiner.com/animal-welfare-in-chicago/81-cats-found-cicero-home-
had-to-be-euthanized-many-others-found-dead
Pet Talk, June 26, 2011
Pet Talk is a service of the College of Veterinary Medicine &
Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University.
Animal Hoarding Cases Growing Across the U.S.
"The nature of
hoarding leads to deficits in basic areas of care such as providing
food,
medical care, and attending to sanitation," says Bergeron.
"Thus, hoarding can lead to starvation, lack of medical treatment,
and increased risk of
disease transmission. Hoarding can be very dangerous for the
animal. Increased animal
suffering and death are potential consequences if hoarding
behaviors persist and are chronic."
http://networkedblogs.com/k8rSg
Animal Hoarding News and Info.,
Gia's Blog, Charleston Co., SC., May
18, 2011
Underweight malnourished,
dead animals taken from home
Psychology Today, March 8, 2011
by
Jessie Scholl
Animal Hoarding :
A View from the Trenches
Animal hoarding: The
who, why, and where.
Interview
with Gia of Animal Hoarding : Alone in a crowded
room
animalhoarding.org/
The Tennessean, February 22, 2011
by Randy Moomaw
Animal Control challenged by hoarding cases
"...There are three common telltale signs of
hoarding,” Josephson said. “One, they don’t
know how many animals they have. Two, the animals
have no names. They’re one huge
sea of need. And three, they aren’t aware of
illness, injury or other health issues of the
animals.
They tend to think the animals are fine because
they’ve been saved....”
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110223/ASHLANDCITY01/110222035/Animal-control-challenged-by-hoarding-case
Psychology
Today February 21, 2011
by Jessie Sholl
Animal Hoarding: One Dog's Story
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dirty-secret/201102/animal-hoarding-one-dogs-story-0
NBC
TODAY Show - Inside the World of Animal
Hoarders January 1, 2011
NBC TODAY Show Dr. Karen Cassiday, a clinical
psychologist, looks into the bizarre problem
of animal hoarding and talks with a recovering
hoarder about this issue. VIDEO
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-50114206/nbc_today_show_inside_the_world_of_animal_hoarders/
Confessions Animal Hoarding- Animal Planet's New
Show
CONFESSIONS: ANIMAL HOARDING is a new docu-reality
series that takes an unflinching, honest look
at animal hoarding, the people and pets affected,
and the challenges of confronting this psychological
condition. Animal hoarding is defined as the
compulsive need to possess and control animals and
often
involves the acquisition of a high and unmanageable
number of animals. Features Dr. Gary Patronek
Founder,
Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium, Boston and
Karen Lynn Cassiday,Ph.D. Owner and Clinical
Director
of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in
Chicago.
http://www.animalplanet.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=30123
Episode Guide
http://www.animalplanet.ca/episodeList.aspx?sid=30123
SFGate.com. San Francisco, California,
December
31, 2010
Animal abuse: State ranks 5th for protecting pets
"according to a comparative study released this
month by the Sonoma County-based
animal legal defense fund. California does not
require counseling and treatment for
hoarders despite the fact that almost everyone who
commits this type of crime is a repeat
offender."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F12%2F30%2FBAPN1H139A.DTL
Batavia Sun Times, Illinois, November 10, 2010
by Denis Baran Unland
Animal overload: How many pets is too
many?
Clinical psychologist Dr. Daniel J.
Moran has been traveling all over the country
helping people confront their
hoarding in his role on two TV shows that utilize
his expertise: Animal Planet’s “Confessions: Animal
Hoarding”
and the Discovery Channel’s “Hoarders: Buried
Alive.” "..........“I think I’m making a
difference,” Moran said. “These
shows are promoting the idea that hoarding is a
problem and that people can be helped.”
http://bataviasun.suntimes.com/lifestyles/2246378-417/moran-animal-hoarding-hoarders-care.html
Chicagonow.com, September 22, 2010
by Steve Dale
When Animal Rescuers
Become Animal Hoarders
"A fascinating story
from
MSNBC.com and Sue Manning
and timely one.
Is there a fine line between a heroic animal rescuer and
animal hoarder?
Rescues and shelters now make up a quarter of the estimated
6,000 new hoarding
cases reported in the U.S. each year, said Dr. Randall
Lockwood, ASPCA's senior
vice president of forensic sciences and anticruelty
projects. He said 20 years ago,
fewer than five percent of hoarding cases include rescues
and shelters."
NJ.com, September 5, 2010
by Ingrid Newkirk, President and
founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, www.PETA.org.
Hoarders hurt animals:
Op-Ed
"Animal hoarding was a dirty
secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and
showed how
they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or
parrots that the animals end up in cages only
inches bigger than their own bodies. For life."
KansasCity.com, September 4, 2010
by Sue Manning, AP
Some 'rescuers'
become animal hoarders
"Rescues and shelters now
make up a quarter of the estimated 6,000 new hoarding
cases reported
in the U.S. each year, said Randall Lockwood of the
ASPCA. ...It remains a mystery how someone
goes from trying to rescue animals to stockpiling them
without food, water or basic care. No single
trigger has been found, but dementia, addiction,
attachment disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder
and other psychological problems are often blamed."
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/04/2200055/some-rescuers-become-animal-hoarders.html
cbs4denver.com, September 3,
2010
by Alan Gionet
Animal Hoarding
Often a Sign of Mental Illness
"In fact the response to the
animal once it's been rescued is very different than the
initial
reaction to help that animal ... In many cases it might be a
form of ignoring or neglect itself,
there's even been evidence to suggest the individual might
not even see the animal....That
may help explain some of the horrific conditions found in
hoarding cases. People suffering
almost a delusional level of not being able to recognize
that animal is present can ignore the
animals' basic needs."....said associate professor Philip
Tedeschi of the Insitutute for Human -
Animal Connection at D.U.'s Graduate School of Social Work."
Huffington Post, July 21, 2010
Animal Hoarders Out of
Control Need Intervention and Treatment- VIDEO
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/animal-hoarders-out-of-co_n_654072.html
philly.com, inquier magazine, July
20, 2010
Hoarding grows and TV
takes note
by Dianna Narder
"Concern about animal hoarding is
so strong now that a Hoarding Task Force Symposium
has been
planned for July 28 at Bucks County Community
College.Karen Cassiday, a Ph.D. clinical
psychologist
from Chicago who is treating animal hoarders
featured on Confessions, says 40 percent of
people who
hoard objects also hoard animals.".... "...As many
as a quarter of a million animals - mostly cats and
dogs - are victims of animal hoarding annually,
Cassiday says. But by handling the cases
differently,
Patronek says, "the outcomes can actually be pretty
good."....Animal hoarders "are very ambivalent
about treatment," says Cassiday. "They never set out
to be this way. They do love animals. They don't
want to hurt them. [Treatment] is a sad, moving time
for them." But without psychological intervention,
Patronek says, animal hoarders return to their old
ways nearly 100 percent of the time."
NBC,
Today Show, July 20, 2010
by Mike Celizic
Animal hoarder: I’d rather go without husband than pets
NY Mag.com, July 2, 2010
Confessions: Animal
Hoarding: The Most Depressing Reality Show of All Time
United Business Media newswire, PRN
Newswire, July, 2010
Explores the Human Impact and Animal Toll of Animal Hoarding
Sentinel
Source. Com, New Hampshire, USA, June 18, 2010
Area hoarders surrender pets
by Josh Stilts
"Stephanie S. Frommer, a state animal cruelty investigator and the
director of field services for the
Monadnock Humane Society, headed the investigations that led to the
voluntary forfeiture of at
least 80 cats, 25 dogs and eight horses from three different properties
in Cheshire County. Because
the owners voluntarily gave up their animals, Frommer is withholding
their names, towns
of residence and other identifying information. No criminal charges are
pending, though Frommer
said the cases will remain open."
"Patronek, author of the article “Hoarding of Animals: An
Under-Recognized Public Health Problem
in a Difficult-to-Study Population,” which appeared in the journal
Public Health Reports, said most
hoarders have lost control of some aspect of their life and are
replacing that loss of control with the
animals’ dependence."
http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2010/06/18/news/local/free/id_404026.txt
KNOXnews.com,
June 13, 2010
Early intervention key in
preventing animal hoarding cases
by Chloe White Kennedy
"It is estimated that 250,000 animals
are victims of hoarding each year -
East Tennessee has seen several
serious hoarding cases over the last few months - and officials
stress that early intervention is key. "If we
can catch (animal hoarding cases) early, the better we can help the
people, and the better we can help the animals,"
said Young-Williams Animal Center Executive Director Tim
Adams"
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jun/13/early-intervention-key-in-preventing-hoarding/
MercuryNews.com June 3, 2010
San Jose: 30 rescued cats still need new homes
by Kunda Goldston
"Thirty of the 108 cats rescued from a hoarder in San Jose last
month still need homes
and eight of them — semi-ferals — could use a good barn or backyard
to hang out in"
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15222442?nclick_check=1
WWLTV.com,
Louisiana,
May 15, 2010
How Many
Animals Are Too Many?
By Angela Hill
Mercurynews.com,
May 7, 2010
San Jose woman was
hoarding 108 cats
by Linda Goldstone
KATU.com,
April 15, 2010
Groups push for
animal abuse registry
"...Supporters of
an
animal abuse registry in Oregon said abusers of pets and of
people look for
small and vulnerable targets...."
NBC-2
News on line, Fort Meyers, Florida, February 24, 2010
Special Report: Animal Hoarders
"It's a constant battle for hoarders and a constant challenge for animal
control.
The likelihood that this reoccur without some type of
intervention is almost a
hundred
percent.
http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=12030143
The Providence Journal, Rhode Island ,
projo.com,
January 30, 2010
" 'Those were my babies....' -
animal hoarding is a complex
psychological problem"
by Michael P.McKinney
"Patronek, the
Tufts University professor, also founded the Hoarding of
Animals Research Consortium,
which did a study that called
animal hoarding
“a problem that few people recognize
as an important community concern and even fewer people study.” It
urged more research and better
communication among agencies that respond to animal hoarding “in
order to better identify,
rehabilitate, and monitor hoarders.”
http://www.projo.com/news/content/ANIMAL_HOARDING_01-30-10_1DH5G6M_v512.38b56a4.html
New York Times City Room, January 19, 2010
And
Multiply
That by Nine Lives Apiece
by Andy Newman
"Stephanie LaFarge, a
psychologist with the A.S.P.C.A., said that in fact,
there were
many different kinds of cat hoarders.
There is the classic obsessive-compulsive who collects
animals to create a universe she can control; the
commercial breeder
whose inventory-control mechanisms go awry; the
once-robust cat owner who becomes infirm or demented and
can no longer herd her brood."
Sacramento Bee,
sacbee.com
October 18, 2009
Hoarding is coming out of hiding
by Cynthia Hubert
Sacbee.com,
Sacramento CA., October 8, 2009
Dozens of "Hoarded" cats rescued; home condemned.
By Cynthia Hubert
Effingham Daily News, Illinois, September 21, 2009
Cat Smell Concerns Neighbors
by Bill Grimes
Look
for Animal Cops Specials for 2009
Extreme Hoarders
http://animal.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=15.12476.125427.35215
Helping Animals World Wide, Blog Spot April
20, 2009
Summary of pending, passed, or
tabled state legislation related to
hoarding animals and puppy mills in various states.
Gazette Times.com,
Albany, April 18, 2009
Too many
animals
By Cathy Ingalls
The hoarding of
animals is a difficult, baffling and disturbing problem that
law enforcement, the courts and humane societies are encountering with
greater frequency.
An informative blog with tips on
responsible rescue - Feral Cats, April 12, 2009
Law will shift animal welfare costs to
violators
by Diana Alba, reporter
Its All in a Name
An informative blog with tips on
responsible recue - Feral Cats, April 12, 2009
How not to be a Crazy Cat Lady
Severe case of
Animal Hoarding
Animal Hoarding suspect arrested
Sauk
Valley.com - Lee
County, Illinois August 11, 2008
Workers,
officials look back on worst hoarding case in Illinois
By Tara
Becker
Belleville News Democrat,
USA - May 27, 2008
by Jennifer A. Brown
Photographs led to the passage of the
Illinois Companion Animal Hoarder Act in 2002,
which increased all penalties for animal
cruelty.
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/352885.html
MSNBC. March 13, 2008
INSIDE AN
ANIMAL HOARDER'S HOUSE
The Eagle Tribune,
New Hampshire, February 17,2008
Victims of
hoarding: Animal hoarders' behavior has serious effects
on animals, people,
and the agencies that clean up after them.
by
Margo Sullivan
Hoarding is driven by
strong emotions, including fear and guilt, along with a
need for
attachment, according to Gail Steketee, of the
Boston University College of Social Work.
http://www.eagletribune.com/punewsnh/local_story_048003505.html?keyword=topstory
February 8, 2008
How many pets are too many?
14 News Investigates: House of
Hoarders
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=7840771&nav=3w6o
14 News Investigates: House of Hoarders pt. 2 -
February 8, 2008
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=7846049&nav=menu54_1
Blogcritics Magazine, January 25, 2008
Sometimes Love Isn't Enough - Animal Hoarding Horror in Southern
California
by Purple Tigress
Humane Society of the United States Jan 24, 2008
The HSUS Assists in Rescuing
Dogs From Hoarding Situation
GABBS, Nev. – The Humane Society of the United States deployed to assist in
a hoarding case
of a woman whose mother passed away and left 149 dogs. Many did not have water
and had
digestive issues that indicated they had gone through long periods of time
without food or water.
http://www.hsus.org/acf/news/pressrel/hoarding_rescue_gabbs_nevada_012408.html
Wood TV Grand Rapids Michigan, June 8, 2007
Its a Meow Luau at Humane society
By Kristi Anderson
It's okay to bring in your overload of extra cats for adoption.
Save yourself from prosecution! Read this.
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6631645&nav=0Rce
The
Village Voice, May 1st, 2007 2:18 PM
The Conquering Hoard Sniffing Out Animal Lovers Who Care Too Much
By Kristen Lombardi
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0718,lombardi,76521,2.html
Marion,
Ark. Case...
Press Release on Jan. 8, 2007
PETA calls for ban on owning animals, Psychiatric intervention if alleged
animal abusers are convicted.
http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=9405
Quad - Cities Online -
Rock Island,
Il
Kim Into, Director of
Animal Sheltering issues for the Humane Society of the U.S.said ....
"The solution to animal hoarding is not a single-agency approach.. In other
words, many people believe it's
solely
the responsibility of the local animal shelter. We say it should be various
agencies such as animal
control, police,
code enforcement, human services, health department, elder services."
Herald-Mail.Com, December
10, 2006
Animal hoarding called a mental health concern
by Pepper Ballard
WASHINGTON
COUNTY -
Animal
control officers used to call them "collectors."
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=153823&format=html
Nashua Telegraph (subscription) - Nashua, NH, USA November 9, 2006
Some 60 cats found in ‘hoarding’ situation
By DAVID BROOKS, Telegraph
Staff
...
being taken from a barn-like outbuilding in Milford, where they were kept in
unsanitary conditions
by a man who was exhibiting classic signs of pet
hoarding
... Go to:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/NEWS01/111090203
Capital News Service, WTOP
Washington D.C., September 28, 2006
"Animal Hoarding Is a
Complex Problem"
By EMILY HAILE
People collect lots of things -- salt shakers, antiques, other inanimate
objects -- but when they start to
collect animals by the hundreds, so many
they're unable to care for them, it crosses a line.
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&pid=0&sid=927087&page=1
WHITEFORD, Md.,
September 12, 2006
5:49 pm
US/Eastern
Animal Hoarder Claims Mental Disorder In
Court
The woman accused of abusing more than 100 dogs in her two Whiteford homes
went before a
Harford
County judge this morning as her lawyer argued that a mental disorder is really
to blame for the crime.
http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_255161125.html
COLUMBIA,
Md.,
September 12, 2006
Authorities said
all of the animals impounded were very sick or already dead.
Howard
County animal control officers have filed criminal charges against two women
living in a house
where 75 cats were seized last month.
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9830878/detail.html
Slate Magazine, July 19,2005
What’s the Deal with the “Cat Ladies”
By
Daniel Engber
http://www.slate.com/id/2123006/?nav=ais
April
2000, Vol. XVII, Issue 4
People Who Hoard Animals
By The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium,
Corresponding Author Randy Frost, Ph.D.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p000425.html
From: Animal People, January/February 1999
Animals in bondage:
the hoarding mind
An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and
enabling behavior.
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/99/1/hoarders.html
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