If you have ever seen the television program Animal Cops, you may have seen an individual or couple guilty of animal hoarding. These are people who just collect cats and dogs, believing somehow that they are "caring" for the animals, when in reality these animals are being horribly neglected. In Pawtucket, Rhode Island a woman was found with over 60 cats in her home. As I recall, only about 13 of those cats were healthy and sociable enough to be adopted out. The rest were euthanized. (I hate the term euthanized; it's just a gentle way of saying 47 cats had to be killed - that is the harsh reality.)
It is believed that the people who amass such quantities of animals actually have a mental illness and I do believe it is true. I believe these people do actually believe they are caring for the animals. Since it is usually very evident when someone in the neighborhood has an excessive amount of animals and when they are not well cared for, shouldn't these people receive help before the problem becomes so excessive that these animals live their entire lives under abusive conditions and then have to be killed? It seems to me that we, as a society, should be trying to protect the innocent and defenseless, and that would be the animals, wouldn't it?
I guess it just hurts my heart to see the cats and dogs pulled out of these homes, seeing how scared and abused they are and then finding out that they were "euthanized." They knew nothing of love in this world, nothing of kindness - only fright, pain, darkness. I wish I had a solution.
At least I care for my critters. That's really all I can do. Those are my beastie babes above... three brothers... my ginger babes. From left clockwise, Cinnamon, Licky and Saurus.
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