If you've ever seen the popular A&E show Hoarders, then you're aware of people's alarming tendency to take it to extremes when it comes to their material possessions. Well, a show with a similar premise on Animal Planet, Confessions: Animal Hoarding, explores a different type of excess. The show focuses on people who have upwards of 50 pets..all at the same time.
One woman in particular had admitted to having over 250 pets come into her home throughout the period of the last 5 years, an average of 50 pets each year. She had good intentions and felt that it was her duty to help these animals in need by adopting them into her home. However, her compulsion had taken a toll on her entire family, as well as their living conditions. Things had gotten so out of control that the environment she was able to provide the animals was no longer any more desirable than their current situation.
With so many animals, she became unable to adequately feed and properly care for them, and she struggled to do the same for her family and herself. As a result, familial relationships were strained and the living conditions for all involved were less than sanitary. I understand that her desire to help came from a good place and that she had the animals' best interest at heart, but there came a point when she was doing more harm than good by taking on more than she could reasonably handle.
Below is a clip from an episode centered around a couple and their 65 cats.
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