Multiple cats in travel trailer full time

Hoarders keep adding and adding animals or whatever, even when they cannot care for what they have. They do not provide appropriate care. Filthy living areas are a hallmark. Sick animals don't go to the vet. Dead animals get left to rot in a cupboard. They are often very secretive and won't let people into their homes or on their property. Having a bunch of animals is not hoarding. Having a bunch of sick dying animals not getting care is hoarding. Or a house piled to the rafters with trash that they identify as "treasures."

I have to disagree with you on this 'stereo type' description of what a hoarder is.

35 years of rescue and 10 years being a humane officer I am here to tell you that that description is NOT the end all be all ONLY description of a hoarder.

And actually thankfully, those are far and few except it is those that make the headline news purely for the shock value. If people got off the internet and watching only shock value news and get into the trenches of rescue they would see that not all hoarders fit into that stereo type description. It would be a discredit to those that watch and turn owners in for animal abuse to 'only' look and beware for owners of 'that' caliper and maybe miss a situation where animals need help.

In filthy or clean environments, rich or poor, animals owned by 'hoarders' SUFFER period.

The worst case of hoarding and animal abuse I was ever on the people lived in an $800,000 home and money up the wazoo.:( Just saying.