What is Animal Hoarding?

What is animal hoarding?


The following criteria are used to define animal hoarding:


More than the typical number of companion animals.

Inability to provide even minimal standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter and veterinary care, with this neglect often resulting in starvation, illness and death.

Denial of the inability to provide this minimum care and the impact of that failure on the animals, the household and human occupants of the dwelling.


For more information:


The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium:

http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding/index.html