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I hate this crap Animal Planet does, I mean really, you can be an animal hoarder and have 3 cats, it just depends on what you can take care of, if you have 10,000 snakes and they are all well cared for.
I'm not sure how many are aware of this but hoarding is not a separate disorder in psychology. According to the DSM-IV-TR hoarding is part of OCD, while it has been suggested that hoarding be added as a seperate disorder in the DSM-V, it has not yet been decided.
Honestly, let's think about this logically, if I have 100 acres and 20 horses, would Animal Planet be filming me? No, but if I have 10 horses and 2 acres, then we'd have a problem. The issue is there is a difference between hoarding and animal abuse. While there is not official disorder, this was one I found on a site:
-Failure to provide minimal standards of sanitation, space, nutrition, and veterinary care for the animals
-Inability to recognize the effects of this failure on the welfare of the animals, human members of the household, and the environment
-Obsessive attempts to accumulate or maintain a collection of animals in the face of progressively deteriorating conditions
-Denial or minimization of problems and living conditions for people and animals
I didn't see this episode, but did this guy meet any of these standards?
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