The psychology of animal hoarding

[birdygal]

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I am glad that you all came out so well after what you must have gone through with a mother like that. Sad that someone does not see it and change.

 

[onthespot]

Famous Oscar Wilde quote: "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." or something like that.

 

[birdygal]

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For sure.

 

[tiki244]

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Thats a good one!

 

[welsummerchicks]

And that is true of so many problems people develop.

It could be anything from alcoholism to schizophrnia to PMS - people very often just aren't motivated to deal with the problem.

And whoever is around them - family, animals, neighbors, children - they suffer.

But that goes back to why I think someone who is a severe hoarder (and I don't mean 'a few extra animals' or 'the neighbors don't like it', I mean, dead and dying animals and WAY over what they can handle) and has animals taken away from them - should have a lifelong ban on animal ownership.

With horses, at least, which is what I have the most experience with as far as animal hoarders, these problems usually go on for decades...and nothing is done. Horses keep dying and starving and nothing is done.

In one case I felt really sorry for the guy - he hired a barn manager, and in my thinking, I mostly blamed her - she was ripping him off and he was too senile (dementia, 85) to realize it.

Then I talked to someone who knew him.

'Oh for heaven's sake, that has been that way for 30 or 40 years. Hundreds of horses. Has nothing to do with him being senile or his manager ripping him off'.

OH!