Well, to me, animal hoarding is when you have more animals than you can truly honestly care for properly. A person could have 10 dogs that are all spayed/neutered, get the proper exercise that they require (each of them individually), get training, walks, proper nutrition, etc, is NOT a hoarder in my eyes. As long as you can afford them and they are being fulfilled, I don't see the problem.
To me, it seems more unfair even if someone only owns 2-4 dogs, but if they are never walked, or trained, etc, that's worse to me. I am dogsitting this weekend for a stylist at my moms salon who has 4 dogs... two Pugs who are 8 months old and 2 Dachshunds who are 12 and 13. They live in a small townhouse with no backyard, they work from 8-5 where the dogs stay in the crate, sometimes longer, and dogs get put back in their crate at 7:30-9am the next morning. They are only out of their crates on most days from 5-7:30pm. That's it. They don't get sufficient exercise, these are the most HYPER dogs I have EVER met. I can't even put their collar on them. They tug and tug and choke themselves. If a person walks by, the Dachshunds pull all the way out on their annoying flexi lead and try to bite their ankles and nip at other dogs. They are never calm, they are fighting, barking, marking all over things, all the boys are unaltered as far as I can tell (3 boys/1 girl), but it's not
their fault they're like that. To me, that is worse than someone owning 10+ dogs who are being taken care of properly. I could never live in a house where dogs were behaving like that all the time. I wish I had more time with these dogs actually because I'd love to implement some training into their lives, even a basic sit would be nice.
I personally wouldn't want more dogs than I could walk at once. What I mean by that is, if I have 4-6 dogs, I probably can't walk them all together and that would bother me. I don't like leaving a few at home, and only taking a couple, etc. 3 would probably be limit but 2 seems perfect to me. Of course just one is okay for now too
