A Michael Broad Blog
When reading about cat hoarders, I have noticed that quite often they live in mobile homes. These are cheap homes. This indicates that cat hoarders tend to be poor people or am I being unfair? If I’m correct in saying that cat hoarders tend to be people who do not have a lot of …
This is a discussion topic. Should this cat hoarder be helped to run her impromptu cat shelter or should she be ostracised and convicted of animal cruelty? The same question could in fairness be asked about a number of people who hoard cats. I ask the question because in the case of this cat …
Angela Guthrie, 53, is a “standard cat hoarder”. There are thousands of them on the planet. She kept 69 cats in a mid-terrace house in Scotland. There were two cat litter trays and predictably cat faeces throughout the house; frankly just typical cat hoarder stuff. Interestingly, on her Facebook page, she complained about the …
Following a tip-off from a concerned neighbor, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals rescued 122 cats from a home in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Sgt. Nicole Wilson said Henryville cat owner Hollie Ingram kept her cats living in filthy flea-ridden conditions and many had untreated injuries. The cats, most of which …
Perhaps it goes without saying that cat hoarding is a symptom of an illness or more accurately a symptom of an inability to cope rather than a specified medical condition or illness. The statement that I’ve made is quite clear-cut – black and white – but this is misleading. The situation is not black …
This is classy cat hoarding or perhaps I’m being unkind to call it cat hoarding because it is also large-scale cat rescue at home using both the family’s four-bedroom home and outhouses in the garden where Silvana Valentino-Locke looks after 122 cats. There is a fine line between hoarding and rescue. Another amazing fact …
In Volusia County, Florida, a cat rescuer by the name of Carmen Martinez was recently “baker acted”. This is jargon for being taken to a mental health facility by the authorities because she protested the seizure of her 132 cats which had been confiscated inside her Deltona home. Every single one of her cats …
Some women give their lives to rescuing and looking after cats who need help. Why do they do this? I don’t believe that long term, dedicated cat rescue is exclusively the domain of women but there is no doubt that there are many more women than men involved. Why is this? The main reason …
