Hoarding at Your Favorite Things

See also:

• Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Anxiety: Obsessive-Compulsive  (66)

• Collectors: Kindness Gone Awry - Factsheet from PETA about the disorder, with references.
• Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles.

• LA Weekly: Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population - An extreme case of hoarding and the failure of local government agencies to deal with it. (July 30, 2008)
• Loving Animals to Death - "Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches." [Salon] (March 8, 2002)
• St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S. (July 2, 2001)
• Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior. (April, 2000)
• Amarillo Globe-News: Cat Collector to Seek Counseling - A brief article about a woman who recognized herself as a collector, yet her animals were well taken care of. (January 21, 2000)
• Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior. (January, 1999)