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Originally Posted by Captainzing  If you've ever watched hoarders on tv, I think you would understand.
There is something wrong with their mental capacity.
I've got a friend that's a hoarder. He is aware of it and always says he's going to clean his place up . Doubtful it happens..
He even has three houses as well as a church next to one of them |
Agree - mental illness likely leads to hoarding. I did watch several of the hoarders shows just to see what seemed to be going on with hoarders mentally and found those that hoard inanimate objects so pitiful and sad it brought me to tears at times. It's heartbreaking the way some of them live. But when I saw animal hoarders, those who deliberately and repeatedly hoard and all the while ignore the suffering of their very own dogs, cats, horses, etc., I feel little pity, just mostly revulsion. I've watched the hoarding shows on TLC/Discover network, Animal Cops shows about hoarders also, read four or five magazine, newspaper articles online about what seems to be behind the hoarding of animals and agree that mental illness is behind it, but there is far more wrong with a person who hoards live animals.
How hoarders can choose to keep adding to their numbers of living victims while quite deliberately ignoring their broken limbs, infected wounds, open sores, eyes matted shut, animals who can't even defecate due to matted fecal material, driven mad with fleas, living in leaking, cold/ stifling, filthy pens with five other animals, all starving for affection, speaks to something beyond mental illness. It rather speaks of a need to victimize others, watch them suffer as they control them; and when keeping those animals requires such deliberately cold-blooded and heartless indifference to their pain and misery, I lose most feeling of pity for a mentally ill person that is also filled with that kind of evil need to cause and watch the utterly helpless suffer.
Hoard all one wants if one can't get or refuses the help needed but when one victimizes, observes yet prevents the utterly helpless, living animals purposefully amassed, kept from having even basic needs as one strives for one's own self-gratification, satisfaction and happiness, in my mind, that person is not merely mentally ill but fosters a vile, horrific streak of evil as well. I doubt most mentally ill hoarders chose to willingly victimize their very own animals.