See also:

• Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Anxiety: Obsessive-Compulsive  (66)

Collectors: Kindness Gone Awry - - Factsheet from PETA about the disorder, with references.

Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - - Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles.

LA Weekly: Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population - - An extreme case of hoarding and the failure of local government agencies to deal with it. (July 30, 2008)

Loving Animals to Death - - "Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches." [Salon] (March 8, 2002)

St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - - An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S. (July 2, 2001)

Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - - An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior. (April, 2000)

Amarillo Globe-News: Cat Collector to Seek Counseling - - A brief article about a woman who recognized herself as a collector, yet her animals were well taken care of. (January 21, 2000)

Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - - An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior. (January, 1999)