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Those of us who love companion animals want to do everything that we can to help animals in need, including give them homes, feed them and give them the attention and affection they all deserve. Humane Society International very recently did just that when they rescued 48 animals from a hoarding situation in Mexico City.
While it is saddening to think that someone could have let their home fall into such squalor and endanger the health and well-being of these poor animals on hoarding cases, it happens more commonly than we would like to believe.
In the United States alone, 250,000 animals are subjected to living in hoarding situations, and many of them don’t make it out alive. The Humane Society of the United States often comes across homes that hoard animals, and they find the bodies of dead and rotting animals lying among the living space of the animals who are still alive.
Animals who live in homes where they are hoarded often receive very little food, clean water, veterinary care and individual attention. Many hoarders are thought to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD or another form of mental illness, and in cases of hoarding are incapable of giving their many companion animals the lives they deserve.
Thankfully, the 30 dogs and 18 cats who were living in a hoarding situation in Mexico City are now on their way to a better life because of the swift action of the Humane Society International.
The best help you can give them is to report hoarding situations when you see them and to not adopt or foster more animals than you can handle.