animal hoarding

Thank you to Rosie Andre for taking the initiative to write an excellent post about a form of keeping animals which often starts with good intentions, but inevitably demonstrates a conflicted personhood, with dire consequences for the animals themselves:

Animal hoarding is a very serious problem which has been getting more attention in the media and on the news lately: a bust on a home, rescue compound or supposed sanctuary where authorities were given a tip about unsafe and unhealthy conditions, with sometimes hundreds of animals overcrowded in one place.  This kind of situation is much more intense than what we tend to think of when it comes to the socially misunderstood and eccentric animal lover, or ‘cat lady,’ who keeps more than an average amount of pets.

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