2 cats became 84 in 2 years (in 1 room)
News never stops and neither does cat hoarding. Two cats became 84 in two years. And they all lived in one filthy room. Think of the mental and physical health and welfare of these...
News never stops and neither does cat hoarding. Two cats became 84 in two years. And they all lived in one filthy room. Think of the mental and physical health and welfare of these...
Here are 53 facts interspersed with some thoughts of my own about cat hoarding. The facts come from studies and therefore they are scientifically based. There may be some overlap in these facts. The...
This is a really tricky question although people tend to oversimplify it. First, what is too many cats? It is subjective. That’s the first hurdle but let’s say that without question your neighbour has...
Preamble This page has been refreshed, added-two and republished as that the date heading this page. They will be amended again. Why? Because this is a massive topic. It is an ongoing topic. Even...
GAINSBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE, UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: This article is about the culmination of a huge struggle by animal rescuer, Michelle Page, of Page’s Pet Rescue, and her colleagues in trying both to save...
FLORIDA – NEWS AND VIEWS: This is the story of a volunteer cat rescue worker who rescued cats from cat hoarders while at the same time being a cat hoarder herself. It is highly...
I’m reminded by a story from California that it is the foul ammonia smell emanating from homes in which there are too many cats which always exposes these homes to the authorities because at...
This is a question about whether introducing a law which restricts the number of cats that a person can own would have the effect of reducing cat hoarding cases. Cat hoarding is a mental...
I am going to combine two news items in this post. One comes from PETA and the other from news media. PETA states that animal shelters are turning their backs on cats which is...
It is rare, in my experience of reading about cat hoarders, for a cat hoarder to seek help. In order to seek help you need to be able to observe and assess your behaviour...
Cat hoarding is a symptom of a mental illness, often a mild form. What kind of mental illness is it? This is work in progress. It is probably a sub-type of standard object hoarding....
A useful and interesting study has been conducted on the medical conditions that hoarded cats suffer from. It is published online on the Sage Journals website. In this study, the hoarded cats were relinquished...
Today, Google tells me that divorce can be over such things as Covid-19, cheating, coffee, cats, cigarettes, chores, chewing tobacco, clutter, child discipline and credit card debt. Quite a list and these are just...
I have never seen something like this: 130 cats, almost all ginger and ginger-and-white, all siblings from one mother who was rescued when pregnant by a woman living in Moscow, Russia. And they were...
Guelph, Ontario, Canada: Sudbury.com report that a woman living in an apartment had surrendered 105 cats to the Guelph Humane Society last week. The matter was investigated by the Provincial Animal Welfare Services (PAWS)...