Dog Hoarder Discovered with 85 dogs

[Twitchin Kitten]

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http://www.aspca.org/news/tri-state/06-25-10.html#1

What on earth makes people do these things?



On June 17, the ASPCA’s Field Investigations and Response Team was deployed to Waynesboro, TN, to assist the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department with a critical hoarding intervention. A total of 85 dogs—including German Shepherds, Labradors and Hound mixes—were discovered in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on a property owned by an elderly man. The dogs were contained in large pens, chained to posts throughout the yard and found roaming the property. Many suffered from health problems, including mange and heartworm.

“In this hoarding case, a man became overwhelmed by the number of dogs in his care and he needed help,” says Kyle Held, the ASPCA’s Midwest Regional Director of Field Investigations and Response. “We removed the dogs from his property, are providing them with medical and behavioral evaluations and will ultimately find them loving homes.”

Twelve of the rescued dogs have arrived at the ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital in New York City, where they are undergoing medical treatment. The remaining dogs were transferred to ASPCA partner agencies, including the Nashville Humane Association and the Atlanta Humane Society.

[twisteroo]

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Can you imagine how that place smells?

[Sally]

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Hoarders have some kind of a mental problem. They think they're doing something good and are in denial about the big fucking mess they created. Usually people who hoard animals hoard garbage too and their house is such a mess that pretty much the only thing you can do is level it to the ground.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I've been in houses with cat hoarders... you can't even imagine the smell. It's eye watering.

The lady who kept these cats would talk about them like she was doing a good thing, getting fish rejects from the fish market, kittens and dams all over the place, snotty noses, skinny cats, fur on the floors from fights, litter boxes overflowing and full of maggots. Flies! OMG The house was full of flies.

The sad thing is these were all purebred Siamese cats and she considered herself a breeder. WTF? The lines were so mixed up and the breeding program non existant. These poor animals were on the losing end of the deal from the first cat she bought and bred.

I made an anonymous call to the ASPCA. Sadly this was 1978 and this wasn't considered an issue then. So, I called the department of Health in NYC. They did something about it. Now an anonymous call to the ASPCA will get results.

[Sally]

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My best friend from kindegarten is a border line hoarder. I don't know how many dogs and puppies she's gone through and then she gets rid of them and gets another dog. She also lives at garage sales and her house is filthy and packed with junk. I came right out and told her that shes fucked in the head lol, but she doesn't care. She just keeps doing it.

I was at her house and her husband yelled at her daughter not to bring food in the living room, which was a complete joke because the carpet looks like it could get up and walk away. She said "Yeah if you drop one bit on the floor than this house is totally fucked" LMAO.

[twisteroo]

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I'm a collector, not a hoarder.