53 facts and thoughts about cat hoarding
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...
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Volunteer who rescued cats from cat hoarders was hoarding cats herself
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...
Foul ammonia odour exposes homes where there are too many cats
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...
Cat hoarding up and feral cat numbers up USA
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...
Cat hoarder admits defeat and seeks help which is rare
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: a spectrum of causes, reasons and personality types
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....
Excellent collage of cats being removed from uninhabitable home
Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) provide both the care for the rescued cats, the photography and the collage on their Facebook page, which I think is excellent despite the subject matter being depressing. I am...
No crime for woman who hoarded 105 cats in apartment
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)...
Cat hoarder and his 16 cats sue the local authority for compensation
Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA – News/opinion story: Damon Fields has the behavioural symptoms of a cat hoarder. In November 2019, he had 16 cats and a home that reportedly reeked so badly...
How do you stop ‘things getting out of control’ at cat hoarding situations?
Hoarders often say it, ‘things got out of control’. They are also the words of a man, Ryan Ross, who has found himself in trouble with the law because he had more than 100...
Can you tell from their face that they are cat abusers?
We see mugshots of alleged cat abusers all the time. Or they are cat hoarders who neglect cats to the point where they become seriously ill and die. This is animal abuse by neglect...
Evicted pensioner moved into a van outside her former home with her cats
This is a slightly unusual hoarding case because it concerns a pensioner living in Wales, UK, who is a hoarder of objects to the point where the North Wales Fire Service deemed her home...
A framework for eradicating cat hoarding in the United States of America
USA: You’ll never get rid of cat hoarding under the current state of affairs. I realise that no one is seriously interested in this topic and fixing the problem but I’ll still discuss it....
Dozens of dead cats found in NY home. Why didn’t they let the cats go free?
This is a point made by a colleague of mine, Jan on Facebook, in reference to the story coming out of Montgomery, USA. A person was evicted from their home in upstate New York....
As a cat lover are you tired of seeing photos like this one?
I am reluctant to go into details into why we see this picture on the msn.com website but as usual it shows a lot of cat carriers outside a home and the people next...
Note: sources for news articles are carefully selected but the news is often not independently verified.