Animal Hoarders

In the town of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, Linda Bruno, ran a successful cat rescue.  People would send their pets from hundreds of miles away to her shelter, unaware that it was in reality a kitty concentration camp.  During a raid, investigators found killing rooms and mass graves.  Over the past fourteen months, Bruno had taken in over 7,000 cats, but had only placed 23 in homes.  A similar case in 2007, a source informed authorities that Sylvia Gyimesi the owner of the Best Buddies Rescue was euthanizing animals with a mix of vodka and sleeping pills. In the case of both women, their ultimate goal was to help the animals, but their rescue mission turned into a case of animal hoarding. Animal hoarders often run legal, not for profit charities.  These shelters and rescues make up about a quarter of all new hoarding cases each year.  While animal hoarders try to care for abandoned, abused, or stay animals, eventually rescuing becomes an obsession.  The presence of psychological problems such as dementia, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder contribute to the problem.

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I, myself am an animal lover and cannot stand to see an animal suffer but, I am also painfully aware of my limited resources.  I cannot understand how these “rescuers” can accumulate so many animals knowing they do not have the ability or resources to care for the animals.  They should know that something is terribly wrong when they are digging mass graves in their yards.   I understand that most of these animal hoarders have psychological disorders, and do not understand the full consequences of their actions.  I believe that we could greatly reduce this problem if everyone would heed the advice of Bob Barker, “Spay and neuter your pets”.