Below are some useful links about Hoarding on Issues - Pets - Recreation - :
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Loving Animals to Death - http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/08/hoarders/index.html
"Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches." [Salon] |
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Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding/
Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles. |
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Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p000425.html
An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior. |
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Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/99/1/hoarders.html
An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior. |
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St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/070201/Hernando/Woman_may_be_animal_h.shtml
An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S. |
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Collectors: Kindness Gone Awry - http://www.peta.org/factsheet/files/FactsheetDisplay.asp?ID=27
Factsheet from PETA about the disorder, with references. |
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